TODAY: In 1962, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? premieres in New York.
- “This seems to be as good a time as any to reflect on what we experience when we move around the world and how the world experiences us.” Americans abroad, a reading list. | Lit Hub
- Rumaan Alam talks to Lynn Steger Strong about “books and art, but also movies, also kids and husbands, beach trips, what to make for dinner.” | Lit Hub
- “How do you avoid adrenaline when you’re in an earthquake? How do you control panic in a house fire?” Mariana Enriquez and an affair to remember. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “Just when you think you know what constitutes an essay, you’ll read one that changes your understanding.” Claire Messud considers that most elusive of forms. | Lit Hub
- “The year 1937 was fatal for ‘illegal’ tourists. That was the year of the great purge in the Soviet Union.” Julius Margolin on his life in the gulag. | Lit Hub History
- 5 writers, 7 questions, no wrong answers: Max Gross, Anneliese Mackintosh, Corey Sobel and more take the Lit Hub Questionnaire. | Lit Hub
- “Leaders perish but the people have a relative immortality. Therefore the first order of business for us as a people is to find our way back to equilibrium.” Marilynne Robinson on the state of the union. | The New York Times
- What is the value of a written constitution? It may not be as obvious as you think. | The Atlantic
- “I pretended to act the way I thought a cute woman should act . . . but it was a horrible experience.” Read a profile of Sakaya Murata. | The Guardian
- Namwali Serpell has thought a lot about the strangeness and beauty of human faces. | The Boston Globe
- What is the “afterlife” of an author who wins the Nobel Prize in Literature? Mario Vargas Llosa has some thoughts. | Pledge Times
- New to Octavia E. Butler’s work? Here’s where to continue reading. | Los Angeles Times
- “She has taught me: Don’t get comfortable.” Dana Levin on her friendship with Louise Glück. | The Paris Review
