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And you think you’re exhausted: Why North American’s black bears have stopped hibernating. | Lit Hub Nature
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“They do not swallow their words.” Yasmine El Rashidi on hip-hop’s role in powering Egypt’s ongoing revolution. | Lit Hub Music
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How Lauren Bacall secured her legendary love story with Humphrey Bogart—and flattened their lives in the process. | Lit Hub Film & TV
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“Urban heat feels crueler and more intimate than the heat you feel in nature.” Jeff Goodell on the perils of life in a hot city. | Lit Hub Climate Change
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Carnal desire in a convoluted context: Andrew Lipstein recommends five books that capture high finance culture. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
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“Whereas some people have a passion for sex, my mentor has a passion for otters.” Read a new work of flash fiction from Patrick Cottrell, from the latest issue of BOMB. | BOMB
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“‘It looks really overwhelming in there,’ she says, peering into the crowd.” A chaotic 48 hours with Colleen Hoover. | TIME
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“I’m for every single artist getting to call their work their own.” Nicole Flattery discusses her new novel, Nothing Special. | Staff Picks
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“You climbed into the warm mouth of the earth and paid your respects.” Kapka Kassabova on the “old baths” in the Mesta river and the healing powers of water. | The Dial
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Rachel Gutman-Wei considers the decline of penmanship. | The Atlantic
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Jonathan Taylor looks back at the early years of Reading Rainbow. | LA Times
Also on Lit Hub: On loving and fictionalizing Ruth Bader Ginsburg • Andrew Ridker on writing about the recent past • Read from Maud Ventura’s newly translated novel, My Husband (tr. Emma Ramadan)
