TODAY: In 1895, poet Robert Graves is born.
- In search Paris’s old Left Bank, in the footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir. | Lit Hub
- Saving art from the Soviet regime: at a secret museum in the Uzbek desert. | Lit Hub
- “What is there to say of the end? It was as I had imagined, but worse, because it was real.” What it is to love an old dog. | Lit Hub
- Amelia Earhart’s mystery death shouldn’t overshadow her life: on the amazing female flyers of early aviation. |Lit Hub
- “So there I was, holding the two halves of a pig’s brain in my palm.” Camas Davis on the time she learned to butcher a pig. | Lit Hub
- From Anton Chekhov to Zadie Smith, novelist Amitava Kumar on his 5 favorite books and stories about finding (or losing) love. | BookMarks
- “Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.” On the 102nd anniversary of his birth, a look at the wit and wisdom of a crime fiction great, John D. MacDonald. | CrimeReads
- “No, no, no, she sang. She wouldn’t go to rehab. Instead, she was doing this.” Leslie Jamison remembers Amy Winehouse on the 7th anniversary of her death. | Longreads
- Who (or what) was the inspiration for the Lorax? Investigating Dr. Seuss’s eco-friendly classic. | The New York Times
- Garnette Cadogan on soccer, “a world game not because of the millions drawn to watch the World Cup, but because of the millions for whom the game is alive every day on the street, tournament or none.” | New York Review of Books
- In partnership with the Man Booker Prize, IKEAs in the UK will soon have reading rooms in which visitors can stop by, read, and even take books home for free—”kind of like a library, but with…close access to swedish meatballs.” | Metro
- “[Her] keen awareness of Victorian gender strictures is everywhere in her work.” Rachel Vorona Cote on the proto-feminist sonnets of Christina Rossetti. | Poetry Foundation
- “Ultimately, I had to stop being Hot Take Teddy and focus on the book.” Samantha Irby interviews Michael Arceneaux. | The Rumpus
