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- “Like so many women novelists of previous centuries, Yezierska’s canonical status is a phenomenon of the recent past.” Catherine Rottenberg on the overdue revival of Anzia Yezierska. | Lit Hub
- Fashion isn’t frivolous: Francesca Granata recommends books central to our understanding of femininity, masculinity, and race. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “This is the work of a writer unconstrained by expectations, or anything remotely resembling marketing imperatives.” Simon Leser on translating a doggedly anonymous author who publishes under the pseudonym Joseph Andras. | Lit Hub
- Feast your eyes on the best book covers of the month, featuring half-faces, dripping clouds, and a militia of rainbows. | Lit Hub
- Angela Buck recommends nine books of seductive nightmares, in which “the moment of doom is terrifying, exhilarating, and weirdly comforting.” | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- In the aftermath of a murder in Muncie, a community banded together—and true crime writers sought answers. From Keith Roysdon. | CrimeReads
- New titles by Hermione Lee, Yaniv Iczkovits, and Jennifer Ryan all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
- “It was the first time I ever talked about HIV without gesturing toward dark conclusions.” Danez Smith on the relationship that returned the possibility of pleasure to them. | GQ
- In praise of the “tablecloth-pulling” ending of Atonement. | Vulture
- What does the merger of Penguin Random House and Simon & Schuster mean for the book industry as a whole? | The New York Times
- “In this culture, to make it as an artist is to get your own American Express campaign.” Ayad Akhtar on art and the artist residency in contemporary America. | MacDowell
- On the subversive storytelling of Dickinson. | The New Yorker
- Reading this year’s NBCC Award finalists: Marion Winik on Wayétu Moore’s The Dragons, The Giant, The Women. | Lit Hub
- “We live in a country that is obsessed with beauty, youth and success, but all that diminishes and eventually ends.” Isabel Allende discusses feminism, her new book, and the idea of home. | Los Angeles Times
- “Abolition is about a restructured world, so there is no single route there.” Mariame Kaba on grief, storytelling, and the future of abolitionist organizing. | Jewish Currents
Also on Lit Hub: Alicia Andrzejewski on the (semi-hidden) history of queer pregnancy in literature • Li Juan on why China’s Kazakh herders are giving up a life of migration • Read from Magda Carneci’s newly translated novel, Fem, translated by Sean Cotter
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