TODAY: In 1920, D.H. Lawrence’s novel Women in Love is first published in a limited subscribers’ edition.
- Anne Sexton makes an enemy. OR, How a poet should respond to a critic. | Literary Hub
- Dave Eggers draws animals (and gods). | Literary Hub
- Why I write: the late Eduardo Galeano on the most important story he ever had to tell. | Literary Hub
- From midcentury poetry to reality TV: how did “confessional” become a dirty word? | Literary Hub
- Martinis make you mean, wine makes you wise… and other important drinking advice from a legendary New Yorker critic. | Literary Hub
- On the letters I’ll never send: Clare Sestanovich amasses an archive of longing. | Literary Hub
- “Mrs. Sexton’s work seems to be very little more than a kind of terribly serious and determinedly outspoken soap-opera.” Anne Sexton’s worst-ever review. | Book Marks
- We are 19 or 22 or 24, and in the great city, we are living in the great moment, the very forefront of now: Luc Sante on New York City in the 1970s. | Noisey
- “This Poirot does a lot of hugging.” Jo Livingstone reviews the beautiful, imperfect Murder on the Orient Express. | New Republic
- Sexist language is clearly a longstanding problem: On the convoluted history of Mrs, Miss, and Ms. | JSTOR
- Gabrielle Union, Dar Williams, and other celebrities share their favorite books. | Omnivoracious
- “Vance is in our schools, our libraries. He is at our graduations and in our newspaper. He’s like the monster from It Follows.” Elizabeth Catte on J. D. Vance fatigue and the case against Hillbilly Elegy. | Boston Review
- “I have never in my life forgotten to eat.” Novelist and publisher Emily Gould on what she cooks in a week. | Epicurious
- While media companies pivot to video, an online mattress retailer is pivoting to print: with the help of McSweeney’s, Casper has launched Woolly, a “bespoke quarterly print magazine.” | Adweek
