TODAY: In 1867, Australian writer Henry Lawson is born.
- Gothics, whodunnits, psychologicals, historicals, and more: 19 young adult reads for the summer. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “How do I mourn never having learned to cook from Amooma when it has been almost 20 years since her death?” Nandita Dinesh on writing (and not writing) about mutton biryani. | Lit Hub Food
- Annie Proulx revisits William Golding’s 1980 novel, Rites of Passage. | Lit Hub Criticism
- “The pain of their senseless deaths gives rise to a primal rage that, even now, I find difficult to manage. Why are Black boys worth so little when our potential is so enormous?” Will Jawando on the senseless gun death of an old friend. | Lit Hub Memoir
- Does Netflix’s $100 million adaptation of George Saunders’s “Escape From Spiderhead” stand up on film? | Lit Hub Film
- Marcy Dermansky on revising without losing your mind. | Lit Hub Craft
- Which international thriller should you binge this weekend? Dwyer Murphy has some suggestions. | CrimeReads
- “The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon wasn’t a cognitive distortion in my brain, it was a message in code.” Gianluca Didion on suddenly encountering a painting by Caspar David Friedrich everywhere he turned. | Lit Hub
- Turns out, 1980s Midwesterners didn’t want their sitcoms set in Boston bars: James Burrows on getting Cheers off the ground. | Lit Hub TV
- Listen along with Bruna Dantas Lobato to the playlist she created while translating Caio Fernando Abreu’s classic queer story collection. | Lit Hub Translation
- Geraldine Brooks’ Horse, Ada Calhoun’s Also a Poet, and Louis Bayard’s Jackie & Meall feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
- “Polonius isn’t a good father. Good fathers don’t make good drama. But he is a good character, more complex than critics usually recognize.” Jeffrey R. Wilson writes in defense of Shakespeare’s “tedious old fool.” | JSTOR Daily
- No, novels aren’t supposed to fix society. | Counter Craft
- “The author of Lapvona is not an iconoclast; she is a nun.” Andrea Long Chu considers the work of Ottessa Moshfegh. | Vulture
- An incredibly moving love song to Costco, by the poet Yuxi Lin. | Longreads
- “This book captures our collective story of sexual liberation.” Abdi Latif Dahir reports on the book that is starting conversations on sexuality across the African diaspora. | The New York Times
- “Let’s be honest about what it is: the late juvenilia of an aging queer bohemian.” Adam Morris on Moldy Strawberries by Caio Fernando Abreu. | The Baffler
