This Week in Literary History: Dante Alighieri is Named Prior of Florence

This Week in Literary History: Dante Alighieri is Named Prior of Florence

(Shortly Before Being Exiled from the City for Life)

By Literary Hub | June 15, 2026

A Place For Me: Navigating My Blackness Through Film and Print

A Place For Me: Navigating My Blackness Through Film and Print

“I kept looking for the flaws, the pieces that I had predetermined were broken and realized that I had never actually seen myself.”

By Phill Branch | June 15, 2026

What is Home? On Food, Family and the Promise of Queer Domesticity

What is Home? On Food, Family and the Promise of Queer Domesticity

Krys Malcolm Belc Considers Cooking For Comfort in Childhood and Adulthood

By Krys Malcolm Belc | June 15, 2026

Did You Know That Squids Have Queer Sex at 7,000 Feet Below Sea Level?

Did You Know That Squids Have Queer Sex at 7,000 Feet Below Sea Level?

Perrin Roosevelt Ireland on the Hidden Sex Lives of Cephalopods

By Perrin Roosevelt Ireland | June 15, 2026

Working in Advertising Helped Me Write My Memoir

Working in Advertising Helped Me Write My Memoir

Lu Chekowsky on Writing the Truth After a Career in Fiction

By Lu Chekowsky | June 15, 2026

Who Were the Mayflower Puritans? (And Did You Know They Came From a Town Called “Scrooby”?)

Who Were the Mayflower Puritans? (And Did You Know They Came From a Town Called “Scrooby”?)

David S. Reynolds on the Political and Religious Motivations For the Pilgrims’ Journey to America

By David S. Reynolds | June 12, 2026

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  • Depraved: The Story of Dangerous Art
  • A Guide to Open Water Lifesaving: Lessons on Love, Care, and Survival: A Memoir
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  • Hocus Pocus
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What Ancient Writers Understood About Bees

By Jared Marcel Pollen | June 12, 2026

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

By Book Marks | June 12, 2026

Reading Korean Poetry Through Music

By Yoo Heekyung and Stine An | June 12, 2026

Between Verdict and Voice, From Judge to Writer

Between Verdict and Voice, From Judge to Writer

Jacqueline St. Joan on Language and Life on the Bench

By Jacqueline St. Joan | June 12, 2026

Claire Fuller on Taking Writing Lessons from Sculpting

Claire Fuller on Taking Writing Lessons from Sculpting

The What Ifs of Writing, or Carving Stone

By Claire Fuller | June 12, 2026

Maris Kreizman’s Best of Books of 2026 So Far

Maris Kreizman’s Best of Books of 2026 So Far

Essential Additions to Your Summer Reading

By Maris Kreizman | June 11, 2026

Has the Time Finally Come for Multispecies Maps?

Has the Time Finally Come for Multispecies Maps?

Ryan Huling on New Innovations in Cartography That Allow Us to Appreciate the Natural World

By Ryan Huling | June 11, 2026

Andrea Wulf Considers the Rare Humanity of an Eighteenth-Century Naturalist

Andrea Wulf Considers the Rare Humanity of an Eighteenth-Century Naturalist

The Remarkable Life and Times of George Forster

By Andrea Wulf | June 11, 2026

How to Refute an Antivaxxer (And Why RFK Jr. is a Danger to Us All)

How to Refute an Antivaxxer (And Why RFK Jr. is a Danger to Us All)

Thomas Levenson Takes on Some Common Arguments Against Immunization

By Thomas Levenson | June 11, 2026

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The Bidens seem stuck in a version of America that does not exist and perhaps never did.”

By Book Marks | June 11, 2026

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