TODAY: In 2001, W.G. Sebald dies.
- Tin House’s 20th Anniversary Issue, to be published in June 2019, will be the publication’s last. | Lit Hub
- “The plane wing dips in the long yellow sun light over Eternal beds of cloud to the Horizon. Mental Jerusalem flying to Havana.” Read from Allen Ginsberg’s Cuba journals. | Lit Hub
- “It is the MTV event that best stands as the last rites of Kurt Cobain.” On Nirvana’s legendary Unplugged set, 25 years ago this week. | Lit Hub
- “The sense of the book is not deep inside it, but hovers somewhere between the book itself and us.” 15 thoughts from William Kentridge, master animator. | Lit Hub
- Rabih Alameddine on his favorite novels of 2018, from Flights to Fever Dream. | Lit Hub
- Anna Burns, Val McDermid, Yan Lianke, and Rock Hudson all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
- The 15 best true crime books of 2018, featuring Michelle MacNamara’s I’ll Be Gone in the Dark, Sarah Weinman’s The Real Lolita, and many more. | CrimeReads
- A group of queer studies scholars has written an open letter condemning the misgendering of transgender people. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- “They are always transitioning”: On veterans and contemporary war literature. | Ploughshares
- “Maybe there’s a third approach when writing about porn: sex as a backdrop to describe the mundanity of capitalist labor.” Chelsea Hodson interviews Christopher Zeischegg. | BOMB
- How one artist took a coloring book for kids and made it into an exhibit on language, indoctrination and the American justice system. | Vulture
- “President Trump seems to me to be one of the best American presidents I’ve ever seen.” Michel Houellebecq gives a very on-brand defense of Donald Trump. | Harper’s
- “How lucky to have discovered that writing books made the miraculous possible, to be removed from the world, and to be a part of the world at the same time.” Read a profile of Sigrid Nunez. | The New York Times
- “Thoreau would’ve hated it thoroughly and completely. He probably would’ve written essays about how much he hated it.” And yet. . . On Walden: the video game. | NPR
Also on Lit Hub: Lit Hub Recommends • On New Books Network, Samantha Silva talks retelling the tale of a Charles Dickens Christmas • Read a story from Ilse Aichinger’s collection, Bad Words
