TODAY: In 1995, German author Michael Ende, best known for his epic fantasy The Neverending Story, dies at 65.
- “Books release my imagination from confinement.” Incarcerated writer Robert Lee Williams on access to literature and feeding his craft. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Rebecca Ackermann muses on the existential impossibilities of parenting through two new novels by Edan Lepucki and Yael Goldstein-Love. | Lit Hub
- On the history and monetization of dialysis. | Lit Hub Health
- Steve Paul remembers the poet William Stafford, who “projected a moral force that can be useful if not essential today.” | Lit Hub Poetry
- “Animal characters, both in word and image, are ciphers in a code, a way of saying or depicting what can’t be said or shown openly.” Marina Warner on Kalīlah wa-Dimnah and the animal fable. | The Public Domain Review
- Rapid fire book recs from Jennifer Weiner. | ELLE
- “Donald Trump’s head may be covered in spray rather than snakes, but he is a Medusa all the same, reconfigured for the age of mass media.” Megan Garber on Trump’s mugshot. | The Atlantic
- Megan Margulies considers the link between motherhood and creativity. | Vogue
- “The inner narratives of Black girls is the spinal cord, the heart, the rib cage of my work.” Kaitlyn Greenidge profiles the multidisciplinary artist Rachel Eliza Griffiths on the occasion of her debut novel, Promise. | Harper’s Bazaar
