THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
On physics, poetry, and how humans “are producing our reality through the stories we choose to tell and the metaphors that we use to narrate them.” | Lit Hub Criticism
Caro Claire Burke, the author of Yesteryear, talks to Sara Petersen about tradwives and the performance of selfhood. | Lit Hub In Conversation
Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s TBR includes work by Asa Drake, Eve L. Ewing, Isaac Fitzgerald, and more. | Lit Hub Criticism
Books by Ben Lerner, Patrick Radden Keefe, Emma Straub, and more are among the 25 new titles out today. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
“Poetry reminds me that repetition is evidence of life, and a way to see life differently.” In praise of the art of replication. | Lit Hub Craft
Nora Lange explores the temporal journey of motherhood: “It was all here—and seemingly against time’s arrow, our mothers come from us too.” | Lit Hub Memoir
Rabih Alameddine and John Freeman consider their new anthology and the appeal of the international short story. | Lit Hub Craft
“High above this snowy field / we spot a shadow hovering.” Read “Late Winter Walk,” a poem by Julia Alvarez from the collection Visitations. | Lit Hub Poetry
“But there was an increased number of guards in the square compared to a typical market day, and this sent a shiver of uneasiness through the crowds.” Read from Agnieszka Szpila’s novel Hexes of the Deadwood Forest, translated by Scotia Gilroy. | Lit Hub Fiction
Jasper Lo, former New Yorker fact checker and union leader, tells the story of his firing from the magazine. | The Nation
“The urge I felt wasn’t to possess. It wasn’t even to resemble. It was to draw near. To be allowed to draw near.” Jeffrey Eugenides remembers the gravitational pull of JFK, Jr. | The New Yorker
On Richard Siken, Anne Carson, and what happens when poets lose their language. | LARB
Omar Hamad tells Shatha Abdellatif about building Gaza’s Phoenix Library from a bookshelf in a tent. | Asymptote
Cartoonists Kasia Babis and Seth Tobocman talk about activism, art, and depicting the work of protest. | The Comics Journal
AI hallucinations are invading scientific literature. | Nature
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