TODAY: In 1802, Jane Austen accepts, then rejects, a proposal of marriage from Harris Bigg-Wither at his Hampshire home.
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- “Midway through our life’s journey, I once found / myself in a dark wood, for I had strayed / from the straight pathway to this tangled ground.” Read from a new translation of Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy by Michael Palma. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “Paradoxically, the omnipresence of the Olympians explains why we seldom wonder where they have gone.” Ed Simon on the belief in Greek gods. | The Hedgehog Review
- Hua Hsu remembers Giant Robot, a magazine that explored Asian American culture, presenting “just one vision of a life among many, not an agenda to be followed.” The New Yorker
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- Charlie Robertshaw examines the impact of war on Burmese poetry and the “poetry of witness.” | Asymptote
- Astra Taylor and Leah Hunt-Hendrix on why solidarity will save us. | Jacobin
- “What makes it special is its systematic review of the legumes themselves…” On some very unique cookbooks. | The Paris Review
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