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“Caught in its fevers, American feminists did not question loudly enough the wisdom of exporting feminism through bombs and drones.” Rafia Zakaria on America’s lies of liberation. | Lit Hub Politics
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For The Longest Year: 2020+, Alexey Yurenev documents the COVID confinement of Brighton Beach’s Red Army veterans. | Lit Hub Photography
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Unpacking the surprising data about religion and the brain. | Lit Hub Science
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Jonathan Franklin recounts a tiger-seeking trip through the “Wild West” of the USSR (with a young Tom Brokaw in tow). | Lit Hub Travel
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“At some point one must admit that the two-state dream has faded into a two-state illusion.” Omri Boehm on the necessary re-imaginings for Israel’s transformation. | Lit Hub
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Species on the edge: William deBuys considers the fate of the Himalayan snow leopard in an era of climate change. | Lit Hub Nature
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Hot commodity: Advanced reader copies, otherwise known as uncorrected proofs, are selling for thousands of dollars on eBay. | Wall Street Journal
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How (and why) Yoon Choi wrote her new short story collection. | Kirkus
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“This is a moment where we’re all thinking about workers who are hidden and who pay the price.” Eyal Press on making the “dirty work” visible. | NPR
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Jarvis R. Givens discusses the term “fugitive pedagogy” and “the subversive intellectual heritage passed on by the formerly enslaved.” | LARB
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“A core difference between writing and translation is that the former requires me to vet every layer of what I produce; the latter, not so much.” Lily Meyer considers the pleasures and responsibilities of translation. | Poets and Writers
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How do words lead to justice? Tracking the movement of ideas from the margins to the mainstream. | Public Books
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Nichole Perkins on pop culture as a way of our “recognizing our humanity” and the creative choices behind her memoir. | Entertainment Weekly
Also on Lit Hub: Patrick Nathan on the fault lines of memory and propaganda • A poem by DeMisty D. Bellinger • Read a story from Brian Evenson’s latest collection, The Glassy, Burning Floor of Hell
