TODAY: In 1935, W. H. Auden enters into a marriage of convenience with Erika Mann, ensuring she could obtain a British passport when the Nazi regime cancelled her German citizenship.
- Spiritualists, idealists, cultists, and more: Tara Isabella Burton presents a reading list on the search for deeper meaning in times of despair. | Lit Hub
- “This’ll hurt me more.” Camille Dungy sends a poem from Denver. | Lit Hub
- “It was an epoch of squandered opportunities, shattered economics, and increased polarization.” Garrett Peck on a(nother) decade from hell: the first of the 21st century. | Lit Hub
- Is Ball Four the greatest baseball memoir ever written? Mitchell Nathanson makes the case for Jim unfiltered look at athletes’ lives. | Lit Hub Sports
- “Environmental writing is a crucible for the literary fusion of art and science.” On the role of scientific data in climate literature. | Lit Hub Climate Change
- Geek Love, The Secret History, Giovanni’s Room, and more rapid-fire book recs from The Lightness author Emily Temple. | Book Marks
- When will publishing reckon with the “conservative publishing industrial complex”? | The New Republic
- Join Lit Hub and the Royal Society of Literature in celebrating Mrs. Dalloway and Dalloway Day this week! | The Hub
- The long history of blaming the devout during a plague: Alan Mikhail on Islamophobia then and now. | Lit Hub History
- Some bookstore owners are feeling conflicted about the surge in white readers buying anti-racist books. | Gothamist
- Hervé Guibert’s To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, set during the height of the AIDS epidemic, is “a story of leaky emotional and physical borders.” | New York Review of Books
- “This is a history-making moment.” Bernardine Evaristo on the Black writers that are topping bestseller lists. | BBC
- The owners of the Tattered Cover, a popular independent bookstore in Denver, are facing increasing pressure to support BIPOC communities after claiming neutrality on racial injustice. | Publishers Weekly
- To celebrate Bloomsday this year (June 16), you can watch a 30-hour marathon reading of James Joyce’s Ulysses. Bring snacks. | The Irish Post
Also on Lit Hub: Willie Perdomo on poetry as a decolonial practice • “December”: A poem by Jaquira Diaz • Read from Jean Kyoung Frazier’s debut novel Pizza Girl.
