TODAY: In 1997, Arundhati Roy’s first novel The God of Small Things is published.
- As the end times near, have we arrived at the grieving stage for planet earth? Sue Sinclair on climate change and entering the palliative era. | Literary Hub
- The virtuosic graphic novel painted while hiding from the Nazis. | Literary Hub
- Gabrielle Bellot on the other invisibles of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. | Literary Hub
- A night out with the AstroPoets and hundreds of their closest friends. | Literary Hub
- Ruby Brunton on the new bad girls of contemporary literature. | Literary Hub
- Fiction by Susan Sontag and Bill McKibben, nonfiction about Joseph Conrad and Vladimir Lenin, and more in the best-reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
- On Anna Kavan’s Ice, a “fantasia about predatory male sexual behavior that takes place during an apocalyptic climate catastrophe” that no longer feels like science fiction. | The New Yorker
- Jenny Slate will write a collection of feminist essays and fables, due out in 2019. | EW
- “How do we relate to each other across race and class differences to build spaces we can all share and benefit from?” What the closing of a Brooklyn feminist bookstore reveals about the movement’s struggles. | Broadly
- From Don’t Let Me Be Lonely to Secondhand Time, recommendations of books to gift from indie presses. | Conversational Reading
- Seven writers on aunts, who, “chosen and by blood, shape us in ways that our mothers and fathers cannot.” | The Outline
- Nine women have come forward with allegations of sexual misconduct against playwright and mentor (and father to the Beastie Boys’ Ad-Rock) Israel Horovitz. | The New York Times
- Hannah Black, Omar Kholeif, and more have received grants from The Arts Writers Grant Program, which aims to ensure that critical writing remains a valued mode of engaging the visual arts. | AWGP
