TODAY: In 1962, a tape-recorded conversation on science fiction takes place between Kingsley Amis, C. S. Lewis and Brian Aldiss in Lewis’s rooms at Cambridge.
- In conversation with the legendary Samuel Delany: “Don’t romanticize science fiction.” | Literary Hub
- Spare us your elegies: who will really advocate for West Virginia? | Literary Hub
- In praise of a fleeting global resource: the deep, deep Alaskan cold. | Literary Hub
- Reading list: 11 books to better understand the Indian caste system. | Literary Hub
- “One can only hope that this new edition, and the possible film adaptation, will bring to this austere, elegant work. . . the sustained attention it so richly deserves.” On Rachel Ingalls’ Mrs. Caliban. | Book Marks
- “Moten is offering up some of the most affecting, most useful, theoretical thinking that exists on the planet today.” Maggie Nelson responds to Fred Moten’s Black and Blur. | 4Columns
- Intensity, but an attractive tone: On the “public, choral, odic” poetry of Marianne Moore. | Poetry Magazine
- Picturing is his element, stretching in all directions: Julian Bell on David Hockney. | NYRB
- Emma Cline has filed a countersuit against a former boyfriend who alleged that she had plagiarized his work—and whose lawyer included her private sexual activity in a public court filing, seemingly to shame her into settling. | The New Yorker
- “In the Western narrative tradition, I’ve long felt there was an accepted bigotry toward dragons.” Alex Gilvarry and Gabe Hudson in conversation. | BOMB Magazine
- “I hope that 40 years from now, gender disparity isn’t so prevalent that I have to be writing about it.” Speaking with Amanda Gorman, the first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate. | Broadly
- The nominees for the first Aspen Words Literary Prize—a “potpourri of 20 works plucked from across the world”—have been announced. | NPR
