TODAY: In 1904, James Joyce begins his relationship with Nora Barnacle.
- How do we write about this vanishing world?Daegan Miller on The World As We Knew It and new kinds of nature writing. | Lit Hub Climate Change
- “It didn’t make sense for us to be talking about justice in the classroom if we weren’t willing to get in the struggle in the streets.” Sen. Raphael G. Warnock on the events that sparked his activism. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Why have teens always loved shopping malls? A history. | Lit Hub History
- April White on how the turn-of-the-century “divorce colony” of Sioux Falls inspired a scandalous novel. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “As it grows, flax is the color of sand on a cloudy day, and it has pale-blue flowers, like distant mountains.” On the ancient mysteries of linen. | Lit Hub History
- Happy Bloomsday! The 1933 Ulysses obscenity trial has been made into a play, and if you happen to be in Dublin today, you can go see The United States v Ulysses for yourself. | The Guardian
- Emma Orlow explores the “colorful, campy, and unapologetically horny” world of erotic cookbooks. | Eater
- “In occupied cities, time doesn’t exist, it is gone.” Ilya Kaminsky collects testimonies from Bucha writers. | The Paris Review
- Good news for the extremely rich! You can rent Gore Vidal’s Italian villa for $90,000 a week. | Town & Country
- Nine books you might have missed when the world was coming to an end. | The Atlantic
- “For me, Paris was literature, its heart and its capital—the city of exiled writers, cursed poets and existentialist philosophers.” Leïla Slimani recommends books to read in Paris. | The New York Times
- What are the best forests in fiction? Zoe Gilbert investigates. | The Guardian
