TODAY: In 1963, Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique is published.
- “I couldn’t get away from those dead people. I spent years with them.” Margaret Verble on deciphering her convoluted family history and finding Cherokee America. | Lit Hub
- A Star Is Born: meta-critique or repetition of a tired cycle? Ahead of the Oscars, Ben Rybeck previews the Best Adapted Screenplay nominees. | Lit Hub
- The Lit Hub/10 Things I Hate About You crossover of your dreams: 50 iconic literary cameos in 90s movies. | Lit Hub
- “Time is different for us in the tropics.” On the iconic first line of One Hundred Years of Solitude. | Lit Hub
- “It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.” Parsing the endless nuances of British stereotypes. | Lit Hub
- “I broke the unspoken law of the subway and started talking to people”: an interview with Subway Book Review creator Uli Beutter Cohen. | Book Marks
- The Book of Delights author Ross Gay on 5 books that delight him, from Hilton Als’ White Girls to Nell Irvin Painter’s Old in Art School. | Book Marks
- “Life does not go off the rails because it is the rails, goes where it goes.” On Sergio De La Pava’s Lost Empress and Rachel Kushner’s The Mars Room. | n+1
- Andrea Levy, whose writings on British Jamaicans gave insight into the “Windrush generation,” has died at 62. | The Guardian
- “Reading her now, beyond the anti-porn intransigence she’s both reviled and revered for, one feels a prescient apocalyptic urgency, one perfectly calibrated, it seems, to the high stakes of our time.” On the power and legacy of Andrea Dworkin’s rage. | NYRB
- From Barbara Comyns to Sarah Moss, Maryse Meijer recommends scary books by women that you’ve just got to read. | Publishers Weekly
- Ann Petry has entered the Library of America series with the re-publication of her novels, The Street and The Narrows. | Library of America
- “Reader, I did not even have coffee with him. That much I learned in college.” Ron Charles on his favorite final lines from literature. | The Washington Post
- Blushes, beating hearts, and brushed hands: why Persuasion is the most seductive of Jane Austen’s novels. | JSTOR
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