TODAY: In 1631, Metaphysical poet John Donne dies.
- Philosopher Mark Kingwell prepares for the cruel beauty of baseball’s opening day.| Literary Hub
- Dionne Ford on slavery, immigration, and explaining the difference to her neighbors.| Literary Hub
- The campus novel evolves yet again with Elif Batuman’s The Idiot. | Literary Hub
- Playlists for classic novels, the first in a series: ten tracks for To the Lighthouse. | Literary Hub
- Ursula K. Le Guin on Neil Gaiman’s attempts to metaphorically “domesticate a troll” in Norse Mythology. | Book Marks
- “They were like the left and right hands of a pianist. Didion supplied delicate melody, while Dunne surged on with mighty supporting chords.” Susan Braudy recalls interviewing Joan Didion in 1977. | Jezebel
- People will always want to both write and read about love: On A Separation and the evolution of the marriage plot. | The New Republic
- “I didn’t want to blur the frontier between fiction and truth, I wanted to write all about truth.” An interview with French literary sensation Édouard Louis. | Work in Progress
- On the novels of Mathias Énard, who “is constructing an intricate, history-rich vision of a persistently misunderstood part of the world.” | The New Yorker
- Major Jackson, Evie Shockley, and other poets pick their favorite pop songs. | The Paris Review
- John Midgley’s portraits of this year’s National Book Critics Circle winners, ft. commentary by Yahdon Israel. | Brooklyn Magazine
- The award-winning literary magazine The Believer has switched ownership from McSweeney’s to the Black Mountain Institute. | The Associated Press
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