TODAY: In 1888, Mexican poet Ramón López Velarde is born.
- Here it is, your 2022 Ultimate Summer Reading List, in which we tally up the most talked about books of the season. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “Motherhood is all about the open hand, and not the grasping fist that holds on for dear life.” What Sally Mann’s work says about art and motherhood. | Lit Hub Photography
- Bangkok, New York, Saudi Arabia: Pitchaya Sudbanthad offers a brief history of trying to breathe in cities. | Lit Hub Climate Change
- Dominic Lieven on the rise of the remote Russian Empire. | Lit Hub History
- How Peter Higgs came to abhor of nuclear weapons—and find hope in particle physics. | Lit Hub Science
- How Eudora Welty captured 1930s New York City on film. | Lit Hub Photography
- “The star of the lurid show, the most unmistakably offensive and troublesome—so far beyond what anyone might call “problematic” today—was written and drawn by Robert Crumb.” On the birth of “underground comix.” | Lit Hub
- Jess McHugh on the radical, revolutionary history of women’s magazines. | Lit Hub History
- Fábio Zuker how Brazil’s least populated state is handling an influx of immigration. | Lit Hub Politics
- Hugh Ryan on the queer history of a forgotten women’s prison, in conversation with James Polchin. | CrimeReads
- Clare Sestanovich, Alexandra Kleeman, and more consider the state of literary fiction. | The Drift
- “So much of what seems new today in science fiction builds on the work that came before it.” Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Lavie Tidhar on Alien and blending sci-fi with horror. | Washington Post
- From Vandana Shiva’s Staying Alive to Terry Tempest Williams’ Refuge, here are ten books to begin your ecofeminist library. | Earth.org
- Phil Klay explores the ever-growing power—both technical and cultural—of guns. | The New Yorker
- “Never describe anything, render it. Don’t describe a ship, build a ship out of words. Then go sailing.” Matt Bell interviews Pure Life author Eugene Martin. | Hazlitt
- Megha Majumdar and Nicole Chung on obsessions, the editing process, and advice for debut writers. | The Atlantic
- “A Heaney poem carried its maker’s name on the blade, and often it cut straight to the bone.” Roy Foster discusses the life of Seamus Heaney. | Princeton University Press
- Rapid-fire book recommendations from Lisa Taddeo. | ELLE
