TODAY: In 2007, Ira Levin, author of A Kiss Before Dying, Rosemary’s Baby, and The Stepford Wives, dies.
- How Virginia and Leonard Woolf remembered their war dead: a look at one of Hogarth Press’ earliest printings. | Lit Hub
- The adaptation of Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend is exactly what we need right now: slow TV. | Lit Hub
- “It was an apocalyptic vision.” On the tenacity and bravery of Marie Colvin, legendary war reporter. | Lit Hub
- “Byron, from afar, expressed an erratic but fatherly interest in his legitimate child.” Yeah, co-parenting with Lord Byron was as weird as you’d think it would be. | Lit Hub
- Meet the six finalists for the UK’s most prestigious non-fiction prize, the Baillie Gifford. | Lit Hub
- So, do women have better sex under socialism? Kristen R. Ghodsee on the inextricable tangle of sex, money, and women’s independence. | Lit Hub
- 10 iconic WWI novels for the armistice centenary, from All Quiet on the Western Front to the Regeneration trilogy. | Book Marks
- From Muriel Spark to Ian Rankin, take a tour of the high streets and seedy underbelly of rainy Edinburgh, the literary capital of Tartan Noir. | CrimeReads
- Can there be “a poetics of climate change”? Katy Waldman on a new collection of cli-fi. | The New Yorker
- “You have lived longer than any child should.” A new fairy tale by Akwaeke Emezi. | T Magazine
- The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities has rescinded an order to censor explicitly political, violent or sexual artwork following widespread media coverage of the contract clause. | Hyperallergic
- Ahead of Michelle Obama’s memoir release, a pop-up bookstore in the UK will exclusively feature work by women and non-binary people of color. | The Guardian
- Inside “the most influential medical book of the 16th century.” | Atlas Obscura
- “There are dark implications in making everything a matter of personal responsibility.” What lies beneath the tough love message of the best-selling self-help book, Girl, Wash Your Face. | BuzzFeed
- Remembering Ivan Turgenev (who Henry James called “the beautiful genius”) on his 200th birthday. | BLARB
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