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TODAY: In 1904, Anton Chekhov, dying of tuberculosis at Badenweiler, writes to his sister Masha, saying his health is improving. (It doesn’t).
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- Fifty years after Stonewall, a new true crime book from scholar James Polchin reveals the long-ignored history of sanctioned homophobic violence. | CrimeReads
- Colson Whitehead is on the cover of TIME this month; he’s the first writer to grace the cover since Jonathan Franzen in 2010. | The Hub
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- “It’s not because I’m smart. It’s because I’m incredibly primitive.” Read a profile of Judith Gurewich, legendary editor and publisher of Other Press. | The New York Times
- “Suddenly, the text was freed from me, or maybe it was me being released from it”: Olga Tokarczuk on private and communal languages, and the politicized task of translation. | Korean Literature Now
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