TODAY: In 1802, Jane Austen accepts, then rejects, a proposal of marriage from Harris Bigg-Wither at his Hampshire home (Manydown Park, pictured here).
- A slice of revelation: On the insecurity-inspiring writing of Anne Carson. | New Republic
- On Kathleen Collins’ Whatever Happened to Interracial Love?, a “multidimensional revelation whose invisibility until now is as grievous a loss to literature as the near-disappearance of [her film] Losing Ground has been to the world of movies.” | The New Yorker
- From Clarice Lispector to Nell Zink, 60 books by women to correct gender-imbalanced lists of the past. | The Times Literary Supplement
- Before the thousands of best of the year lists emerge, recommendations of the best books to read in December. | Vulture, Flavorwire
- “American capitalism, founded in slavery, bore the antagonist twins of blackness and surveillance.” On Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness and From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. | Public Books
- “Here is only a small sample of their testimony, a sampling of how this organization has changed so many folk’s lives, and how they have evolved since the first meeting of Black poetic minds in the town of Esopus, New York in 1996.” Reflecting on 10 years of Cave Canem. | Harriet
- Unsleeping on dark and bloody ground: A graphic essay by Kristen Radtke. | Oxford American
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