TODAY: In 1878, Japanese poet Yosano Akiko, pioneering feminist, pacifist, and social reformer, is born.
- It’s time to pick favo(u)rites once and for all, with Who Wore it Better: US vs. UK cover edition. | Lit Hub
- Looking to spread some bookish cheer this season? Here are some great literary volunteer opportunities. | Lit Hub
- “There is power and agency in staying in a dangerous place when one has the choice to leave.” On the writing of Raúl Zurita, poet of the disappeared. | Lit Hub
- “He has incidentally chronicled in his photographs the habits and routines and costumes of a vanished world.” Paul Theroux on the iconic photographs of Steve McCurry. | Lit Hub
- “Navigating the threshold between childhood and adulthood is a dangerous endeavor.” A coming-of-age memoir reading list. | Lit Hub
- Our roundup of the Best Reviewed Books of the Year concludes today, as we reveal the top ten best reviewed Fiction and Nonfiction titles of 2018. | Book Marks
- “Nowhere is discredited science more alive than in crime fiction.” Andrew Case on the relationship between crime fiction and junk science. | CrimeReads
- A moving, illustrated review of The Letters of Sylvia Plath: Vol I and II. | The New Yorker
- Bullying, bystanders and moral panics: A conversation with the late Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman. | The New York Review of Books
- Not your grandpa’s The Jungle Book (but maybe your great-grandpa’s?): On the bloody Rudyard Kipling movie adaptation, Mowgli. | Salon
- “For a lot of people that I know, poetry, art, and music has always been hand-in-hand with activism.” Read an interview with Chicago poet Britteney Black Rose Kapri. | The Fader
- Today in horrifying Amazon news: a rogue warehouse robot sprayed 24 workers with with bear repellant. | Futurism
- James Joyce’s iconic spectacles sold at auction this week for a whopping $19,000. | LA Times
- Patricia Lockwood’s Priestdaddy has been awarded the 2018 Thurber Prize for American Humor. | Thurber House
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