- Behind the most famous photograph ever taken: looking at the whole earth, for the first time ever. | Literary Hub
- The trouble with boys: Peggy Orenstein on masculinity in the age of Trump. | Literary Hub
- Rough drafts: a new series that looks at works-in-progress from arts residencies across America (and beyond). Up first, the Millay Colony for the Arts! | Literary Hub
- Returning to writing after a stage four cancer diagnosis: Annabelle Kim finds clarity in the hard truths of life and death. | Literary Hub
- In honor of Edna O’Brien’s lifetime achievement PEN award—and to celebrate The Country Girls outlasting the censorious power of the Catholic Church in Ireland—what critics have written about the novel through the years. | Book Marks
- “We have to do this ourselves because, frankly, no one’s going to do this for us.” Emily Witt speaks with several student activists about the Never Again movement. | The New Yorker
- After Joss Whedon stepped down from writing and directing Batgirl, Roxane Gay tweeted offering to take over (and Warner Bros. is, perhaps, interested). | Variety
- Michelle Obama’s memoir, titled Becoming, will be published on November 13th. | The New York Times
- “I find myself cobbling together a Judaism out of half-remembered stories and vanished foods and demolished resorts and songs I can’t understand.” On nostalgia and belonging. | Hazlitt
- Hanif Abdurraqib on Black Panther, which “gives all of its black characters the space to be several things at once.” | 4Columns
- On the “poetics that are created between the intricate streets” of Mexico City—and how one writes, eats, and drinks there. | Full Stop
- “I think we all have a little bit of Jude and Willem inside of us.” Antoni Porowski, the “food and wine expert” from the Queer Eye reboot, on his love for A Little Life. | Vulture
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