TODAY: In 1865, Isabella Beeton, author of Mrs Beeton’s Book of Household Management, dies.
- How do we ever escape surveillance capitalism? Andrew Keen and Noam Cohen consider how we might fix the future. | Literary Hub
- The world on a bookshelf: in praise of the rural, small-town library. | Literary Hub
- Borders, Big Questions, and breathtakingly good criticism: 5 books making news this week. | Book Marks
- “If his students could learn to think well, to enjoy reading books, some part of them would be uncaged. That was what Gordon Hauser told himself, and what he told them, too.” Read from Rachel Kushner’s forthcoming novel, The Mars Room. | The New Yorker
- “I want to teach my daughters that they are entitled to silence. But I also want to teach them that sometimes it’s okay to snarl back.” Danielle Lazarin is teaching her daughters to be rude (sometimes). | The Cut
- “There’s a lot worse things in the world than being bored.” A short story by Stephanie Powell Watts. | Shondaland
- Andrew Davies, the screenwriter behind the BBC’s beloved 1995 Pride and Prejudice mini-series, is adapting John Updike’s Rabbit, Run novels for television. | Deadline
- “The heroine we need is against the hero. The antagonist. She remains outside.” Sarah Nicole Prickett on Wonder Woman and womanhood. | Artforum
- On the lesser-known work of Anna Kavan, who “revisited over and over one of her central obsessions—women isolated and bullied by strong, brutish men—as she tries to imagine different narrative possibilities.” | The Critical Flame
- To think that, until the dogs’ appearance, everything had been going fine: An excerpt from Anna by Niccolò Ammaniti, translated by Jonathan Hunt. | Guernica
Also on Literary Hub: What it means to move all the time: Stephanie Powell Watts on a childhood of constant relocation • Nick Petrie ventures into uncharted territory • Azareen Van Der Vliet Oloomi’s latest: read from Call Me Zebra
