TODAY: In 1984, George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four begins.
- Who’s killing the bees? Donna Leon wonders if colony collapse is the ultimate murder mystery. | Literary Hub
- April 4, 1984 (and 49 other fictional days immortalized in literature). | Literary Hub
- On Gwendolyn Brooks’ saddest poem, and Washington, DC’s disappearing black girls. | Literary Hub
- Ana Marie Cox isn’t particularly thrilled with our new national nightmare. | Literary Hub
- Dr. Willie Baker: Why I’m an abortion doctor in the deep South. | Literary Hub
- TV mediums and their books about grief: bad for the living and the dead. | Literary Hub
- The similarities between Nixon and Trump leap off the page like crickets: A review of John A. Farrell’s Richard Nixon: The Life. | Book Marks
- Here was love and betrayal, competition and support: On Marlena and other recent works depicting the “dramatic potential of a long friendship.” | Vogue
- “I and mine are not lean-in women. Mine is a long and illustrious heritage of elegant survivalists and creative realists.” Ayana Mathis on the unexpected consequences of becoming a successful novelist and the legitimization of desires. | Guernica
- A profile of poet, memoirist, and “milkmaid who is trying to vape the sun,” Patricia Lockwood. | VICE
- Richard didn’t need to do it, but he did: A short story by Emma Cline. | The New Yorker
- “Using the mode of writing about a nature poem rather than writing a nature poem was, at least, a cute exercise.” An interview with Tommy Pico. | Out Magazine
- “I arrived in the Land of Witches at the end of the season of furs.” A short story by Sofia Samatar. | The Offing
- The Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction shortlist has been announced. | Publishing Perspectives
