TODAY: In 1937, Of Mice and Men is published.
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“What interested me was that great grandmother who could see the future but never change it.” Margot Livesey considers the possibility of hereditary supernatural gifts. | Lit Hub
- Why are lions kings, anyway? On the origins and development of the bestiary and its role in the medieval imagination. | Lit Hub History
- “Dante’s Inferno. Dating is terrible. Daydreaming like this, I fell off my bike on Shaw, missing a dip in the road and losing control of the bike, and smashed up my knee. Deep in the field a boy and girl came up and sat with us. DFW died.” An alphabetical prose experiment by Sheila Heti. | Lit Hub
- In February, new poetry collections “approach the theme of the child—birth, childhood, the fact of being someone’s offspring—in their own indelible ways.” | Lit Hub
- From Margaret Atwood to Shayla Lawson, here are 24 new books out today. | Lit Hub
- “Objects would suddenly fall or fall apart, cars go off course, dogs drop to their knees. The army was doing sound experiments at a nearby desert in those days. I was nervous all the rest of my life (she wrote).” Read from Anne Carson’s new novel,Wrong Norma. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “And what is life for / if my dreams are obliterated with my city / and children are dying.” A poem by Haya Abu Nasser. | Scoundrel Time
- “His legacy leaves evidence of the continual Indigenous presence and imagination that defines America.” Joy Harjo remembers N. Scott Momaday. | The Washington Post
- Why paper books are better for you than e-readers. | Psychology Today
- Natalie Norris and Karina Shor discuss graphic memoir and trauma: “I didn’t feel like I needed to tell the story now, I always felt like I needed to tell the story.” | The Comics Journal
- “The crimes of colonialism have contributed to climate collapse. Care, these writers suggest, is the cure.” Emily Raboteau on care, motherhood, a new environmental canon. | The New York Review of Books
- Who is Elly Conway? Not Taylor Swift, it turns out. | The Telegraph
- “The evil of anti-blackness is so unnatural, so monstrous, that it seems to come from outside the boundaries of the world of space we know; it goes against the sense of everyday life.” Nicholas Whittaker on Lovecraft, Atlantics, and black horror. | The Point
