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On the Great Poets’ Brawl of ’68, when literary conferences were a lot more interesting. | Lit Hub
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Yorgos Lanthimos’s adaptation of Poor Things is almost here! But first, let’s talk about the other Alasdair Gray books you should definitely read. | Lit Hub Film
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Why are we seeing so many bunnies on book covers? Celia Mattison has thoughts. | Lit Hub
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“Picasso submits to his mercurial, shape-shifting interior as if it were a tyrant, and we in turn submit to his art.” Mara Naselli considers the visceral visual violence of the Pablo Picasso’s oeuvre. | Lit Hub Art
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Turns out, there’s a name for the 400 million people who don’t like music (including Nabokov). | Lit Hub Music
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“I had envisioned book bans as modern morality plays… But what happened in Memphis wasn’t so simple.” Robert Samuels on the reverberating effects of book bans. | The New Yorker
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Kaya Genç considers Kawa Nemir’s Kurdish translation of Ulysses. | The Dial
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John Last revisits the fictional 1840 travelogue, Voyage en Icarie, which inspired a communist utopia on the American frontier. | Smithsonian Magazine
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“The Palestinian people, on television screens or more largely in the public sphere, exist in a false dichotomy: We are either victims or terrorists.” Mohammed El-Kurd on the suppression of the Palestinian point of view, past and present. | The Nation
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Ann Patchett talks reading resolutions and her TBR pile. | WSJ Magazine
Also on Lit Hub: Jessica Strawser on telling and re-telling traumatic stories • Sheila Squillante on writing to remember her father • Read from Tsitsi Mapepa’s debut novel, Ndima Ndima
