TODAY: In 1908, novelist Ann Petry, the first black woman writer with book sales topping a million copies for her novel The Street, is born.
- Rebecca Solnit on Harvey Weinstein, Hillary Clinton, and blaming women for the acts of men. | Literary Hub
- The line between fact and fiction is even blurrier on the internet, says Andrew O’Hagan. Or does he? (He does.) | Literary Hub
- Virginia Woolf was mean. Please enjoy this incomplete compendium of her best insults. | Literary Hub
- Helen Benedict recommends the best contemporary Iraqi writing about war. | Literary Hub
- Like so many others before her, Xiaolu Guo finds a new life in Berlin. | Literary Hub
- Alexis Okeowo on what resistance (and reporting) looks like in the face of extremism. | Literary Hub
- “Each red flag, a lesson in worth.” Jeanann Verlee on a life of toxic literary encounters with men. | VIDA
- A paradise found: Jason Parham on the restorative power of the black barbershop. | The Fader
- “Morrison’s history of Othering represents an intervention in history on several fronts.” On Toni Morrison’s new book of essays, The Origins of Others. | New Republic
- My (revolutionary) brother’s keeper: on an intimate new memoir by Che Guevara’s youngest brother, Juan Martin Guevara. | The New Yorker
- Stevens is, essentially, the ideal neoliberal cog: Understanding our current political climate through The Remains of the Day. | Electric Literature
- “Books are the best weapons.” President Macron and Chancellor Merkel agreed on the importance of culture at the world’s oldest book fair. | The New York Times
- In a freestyle rap against Trump, Eminem has bravely attempted to find a rhyme for the word “orange.” | CNN
- On Naomi Alderman’s The Power, “our era’s Handmaid’s Tale” (and possessor of “brilliant triumvirate of [literary] grandmothers”). | Book Marks
Also on Lit Hub: On William Mumler, criminal Spiritualist and photographer of the dead · Più Eatwell finds her calling in the City of Light · Read “Gimme Shelter” from Emily Fridlund’s new story collection.
