- What Borges’ science fiction got right about the importance of forgetting, according to child psychiatry. | Lit Hub Science
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MLB All-Star C.C. Sabathia reflects on confronting fame, guilt, and alcoholism from inside baseball’s say-nothing culture. | Lit Hub Sports
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David Searcy considers how photograph allows us to bring back our dead and prove that we’re alive. | Lit Hub Photography
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“Human superiority is not what we once thought.” Henry Mace plumbs the depths of animal emotions. | Lit Hub Nature
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Heidi Boghosian on the spiral of silence and self-censorship in an era of (real and perceived) government surveillance. | Lit Hub Tech
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Cynthia Cruz recommends working-class literature that helped her understand “the melancholia of class.” | Lit Hub Reading Lists
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WATCH: At Border Crossings’ Origins Festival, Matthew James Weigel and Liz Howard discuss the historicization of genocide. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel
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Jack the Ripper wasn’t the only serial killer stalking the city’s vulnerable: Dean Jobb on the prolific Dr. Cream. | CrimeReads
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Steph Cha on Beth Morgan’s A Touch of Jen, Ron Charles on Katie Kitamura’s Intimacies, and more of the Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
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“She is able to recognize what one person is capable of preserving, and so she preserves it.” Lauren Oyler profiles Jenny Erpenbeck. | The New Yorker
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Doree Shafrir talks to Anna Sale about her new memoir and the challenges of IVF. | Death, Sex & Money
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Anand Giridharadas contemplates the eternal appeal of New York City, the “massive class scam” of philanthropy, and politics. | Walk It Off
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“For me one of the threads of Ghost Forest is the way women’s lives get thwarted.” Pik-Shuen Fung on her multigenerational novel and her visual art training. | BOMB
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This Joy Harjo-collected anthology, featuring 47 poems by Native Nations poets, urges readers to rethink America’s cultural storytelling. | Ploughshares
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Nikole Hannah-Jones discusses her plans to “even the playing field” for HBCUs as she prepares to join the faculty at Howard University. | Los Angeles Times
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“The antithesis between humankind’s attempts to corral nature, and our ultimate, if not total, impotence stands as the defining tension of all of Stewart’s work.” On George R. Stewart’s ecofictions. | The Baffler
Also on Lit Hub: Genevieve Plunkett on friendship, tourism, and equine grief • Lily Meyer on the mind-expanding practice of translating Claudia Ulloa Donoso • Read from Pik-Shuen Fung’s, Ghost Forest
