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“History lays the road of a diasporic person wide and far. My lane winds across oceans.” V.V. Ganeshananthan considers authenticity, research, and writing about Sri Lanka. | Lit Hub
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Aanchal Malhotra reflects on writing a historical novel as a historian. | Lit Hub
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On Samuel Beckett’s search for home: “The finely appointed but oppressively miserable home of his origins followed him like a spectre.” | Lit Hub
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Bill McKibben in praise of writing (sprawling, comic) serialized novels. | Lit Hub
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“First introduced to the world as an insert in New York Magazine, Ms. demonstrated the potential for journalism that centered news and analysis around women.” On its 50th anniversary, a history of Ms. Magazine. | The Cut
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Eight self-help books that might actually… help. | The Atlantic
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“Whiteness was framed as freedom.” Matthew K. Ritchie considers American racial satire. | Los Angeles Review of Books
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Faced with Ron DeSantis’ restrictions on teaching CRT in higher education, Florida professors are canceling classes that focus on race. | ProPublica
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“Tonks renounced literature as others do intoxicants, a clean break with an evangelical bent.” Audrey Wollen on Rosemary Tonks. | The New Yorker
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Kevin Koczwara explores the prescience of Don Delillo’s “perfect satire” White Noise. | Esquire
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A growing number of librarians are turning to TikTok to connect with younger readers. | The New York Times
Also on Lit Hub: Why I had to get older to write about youth • On translation and inherited trauma (or, what it means to truly inhabit an author’s work) • Read from Tom Crewe’s debut novel, The New Life
