TODAY: In 1841, Punch or The London Charivari, a British weekly magazine of humor and satire, is founded in London by Henry Mayhew and engraver Ebenezer Landells.
- Sarah Sentilles on torture, Abu Ghraib, and trying to find the other in war. | Literary Hub
- Road trip season is here: 10 literary journeys you should take (that aren’t On the Road). | Literary Hub
- Lucy Scholes considers the literature of loneliness (while finding solitude in London). | Literary Hub
- “The novel offers a thoroughly ugly view of human nature.” Back in 2008, the New York Times was less than enthused about Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. | Book Marks
- The first official trailer for Ava DuVernay’s A Wrinkle in Time adaptation has been released. | YouTube
- Former FBI director James Comey is writing a book that’s expected to spark a bidding war between all the major publishing houses when it goes to auction sometime this week. | The New York Times
- Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards is also publishing a book—a memoir, forthcoming from Touchstone in spring 2018. | Simon & Schuster
- On Yale undergraduate Rebecca Shoptaw’s gender-bending web series adaptation of Middlemarch, “worth watching for its ambition as well as for its charm.” | The New Yorker
- How the L.A. writing of Eve Babitz and Francesca Lia Block is “is much like [the city] at its best: alluringly sexy but also heartbreakingly unpredictable, beautiful but indifferent to what you want from it.” | The New Republic
- “I feel like so much of contemporary loneliness in motion is this compulsion to share my web browser.” Eileen Myles, Melissa Broder, and other writers and artists on using social media as a creative tool. | The Creative Independent
- The pig was a promise: on the prevalence of swine in medieval art and literature. | The Guardian
Also on Lit Hub: Bad cops: 10 gripping stories of corruption and vice · A little Anais Nin on a Monday morning.
