- Reading the fine print of Ammon Bundy’s divine mandate: Sally Denton on the cowboy constitutionalists of the Oregon militia standoff. | Lit Hub
- Writer’s block? Nick Ripatrazone has a poem for that. | Lit Hub
- “[The migrant caravan] formed as a response to the violence, poverty, and drought that had stricken its region and made living there nearly impossible.” How Trump’s failed wall still wreaks havoc at the US-Mexico border. | Lit Hub
- What makes a novel “for grown-ups” anyway? Four coming-of-age stories that break down the barriers between adult and YA fiction. | Lit Hub
- “Max Havelaar became the weapon for a growing liberal movement…” On one of the great Dutch novels of social reform. | Lit Hub
- “I live in that space between what I cannot fix and what I can.” William Dameron’s coming out story is a story of forgiveness. | Lit Hub
- Stephen King on Laura Lippman’s Lady in the Lake, Jonathan Galassi on a history of Faber & Faber, The New Jim Crow ten years on, and more of the Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week. | Book Marks
- Rachel DeLoache Williams on the bizarre experience of being conned by Anna Delvey, the pretend-heiress who took Manhattanites for thousands. | CrimeReads
- “Just as medieval scribes could abuse their positions, or simply commit errors, so can modern consumers, or those imitating them”: Who needs literary critics to detect fake Amazon reviews when algorithms can do it for us? | The Financial Times
- The London Library’s Twenty in 2020 initiative will pair it with publisher Jacaranda to publish the work of twenty black British authors next year. | The Voice
- “‘IT’S MY BIRTHDAY!!!’ feels happier than ‘It’s my birthday!!!’ But ‘i miss u’ is just as pathetic as ‘I MISS U.’” Gretchen McCullough on the subtle and varied meanings of all caps. | Wired
- Disgusted by the news? Mira Jacobs recommends a poem by Ashley M. Jones to help combat hate. | PEN
- Lit decor inspo: how Ramona, Nancy Drew, and other favorite children’s book characters might decorate their first apartments. | Apartment Therapy
- The writer who removed a criticism of Putin from the Russian translation of his book explains why he allows authoritarian adaptations of his work. | Newsweek
- “I hope one of the things that I communicate in my writing is a deep ambivalence.” Read an interview with Kate Zambreno. | Interview
Also on Lit Hub: On The Maris Review, Laura Lippman on how Marjorie Morningstar inspired her new novel • Jonathan Fetter-Vorm and Mary Anne Mohanraj talk Apollo 11 on Fiction/Non/Fiction • Barred from the 1976 Olympics, these swimmers still beat Olympic records • On opening Ghana’s first subscription-model library • Read a story from Rania Mamoun’s collection Thirteen Months of Sunrise (tr. Elisabeth Jaquette).
