TODAY: In 1954, the rediscovered and restored early 17th-century Corral de comedias de Almagro in Spain is re-inaugurated with a play by Calderon de la Barca.
- “Even feminists of the time oversimplified Lewinsky’s place in the affair.” Mandy Berman on Monica Lewinsky, and granting women the romantic complexity they deserve. | Lit Hub
- “Journalism played a role in nearly every phase of Whitman’s life.” On Walt Whitman, unsung newspaperman. | Lit Hub
- Abi Maxwell considers the long reach of a teenage crush, and the vague, low standards set for “good men.” | Lit Hub
- When a city values function over form: on Frank Lloyd Wright and the architectural war for New York’s skyline. | Lit Hub
- “As goes language, so too goes form.” Tobias Carroll on what gets lost (and found) in translating prose to comics. | Lit Hub
- This week in Secrets of the Book Critics: Nathan Deuel on The Quiet American, Floridian fiction, and quitting social media. | Book Marks
- John Douglas, the original Mindhunter, talks with Lisa Levy about his life’s work: conversations with criminals. | CrimeReads
- Where is the black Blueberries for Sal? On the lack of diversity in children’s books about the natural world. | The Atlantic
- “Modi is back once again, even bigger than before, worshipped like a deity.” Arundhati Roy on India’s elections. | The New Republic
- Tony Horwitz, a journalist and historian known for his writing on low-wage working conditions and early American history, died on Monday at 60. | The New York Times
- “I heard her upstairs in the studio, in the kitchen, late at night when I was in my room.” Read a new short story by Ayşegül Savaş. | The New Yorker
- “Everyone says you should read Proust, but no one had ever told me that I, specifically, should read Proust”: Elisa Gabbert discusses the unexpected pleasures of finally reading (and willfully misunderstanding) Swann’s Way. | The Paris Review
- Han Kang is the latest writer to bury one of her manuscripts in the Norwegian woods for 95 years for Scottish artist Katie Paterson’s Future Library project. | The Guardian
- “The women from Johnson & Johnson had come to the school, and separated us from the boys so that they could tell us secrets about our own bodies.” On menstruation in fiction. | Ploughshares
Also on Lit Hub: Celebrating three years of Reading Women • On Otherppl, Elisa Gabbert on the problem with TV • Interview with a bookstore: Raven Book Store • Vasily Grossman and the plight of Soviet Jewish scientists • Read from Malina (trans. Philip Boehm).
