TODAY: In 1929, the first appearance of Hergé‘s Belgian comic book hero Tintin as Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, begins serialization in children’s newspaper supplement, Le Petit Vingtième.
- What do you do when there’s a madman wandering around the White House? Well, if you’re a major national newspaper, you stand up to a government that lies to its citizens. (FILE UNDER: history repeating itself.) | Literary Hub
- Here is a good essay on writers and their cats, because you deserve a break. | Literary Hub
- Forget Orwell and Atwood and all the anointed literary prophets of 2017: allow Gabrielle Bellot to recommend a deep (re)reading of Borges to get you through the end times. | Literary Hub
- “If you come for the woman behind the list, you do need to come for us all.” Lyz Lenz on the possibility of the woman behind the Shitty Men in Media list being named in a forthcoming Harper’s feature. | The Rumpus
- Drink, women, drugging and police interference: On the anniversary of Dashiell Hammett’s death, revisit early reviews of his masterpiece, The Maltese Falcon. | Book Marks
- A rich tapestry of private life and feeling for women barred from playing any public role: On The Memoirs of Two Young Wives, Honoré de Balzac’s forgotten novel of female friendship. | NYRB
- Hermione Hoby on the meditative beauty of Arthur Russell and writing her first novel “to the music of three old dudes.” | Catapult
- After a 12-year tug-of-war, Arthur Miller’s archive has landed at the Harry Ransom Center (despite the Miller estate’s attempts to place the papers with Yale). | The New York Times
- “I can’t think of a safer place to explore complex emotions for the first time than inside the pages of a book, while sitting in the lap of a loved one.” Matt de la Peña on why we shouldn’t shield children from darkness in children’s books. | TIME
- “You have to write the book you want to see in the world.” A profile of Carmen Maria Machado. | Broadly
- Folie a deux: Kathleen Hale on mental illness and the Slenderman attempted homicide trials of Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier. | Hazlitt
- Translation isn’t simply some post-Babelian necessity: Speaking with Asympote’s poetry editor Aditi Machado. | Chicago Review of Books
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