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- Juliana Hatfield has been appearing on tribute albums for three decades and isn’t sure why… In conversation with Ray Padgett. | Lit Hub Music
- “It’s not just Trump dodging taxes and ‘losing money’ that we should care about.” Henry Kogan on the questions we should all be asking about the president’s tax returns. | Lit Hub Politics
- “I found myself wishing I was Celan’s psychoanalyst.” In which Jamieson Webster does a very very very close reading of the poet Paul Celan. | Lit Hub Criticism
- On riding out the COVID-19 pandemic in the heart of the old Holy Roman Empire: Ethan Lou goes on a deep nostalgia kick in Bayreuth. | Lit Hub
- What a video game can teach us about getting through a pandemic: Anna Weltmann on making real-world models from World of Warcraft epidemics. | Lit Hub Tech
- “The memoir built of pieces is gigantically plastic; it welcomes new versions, new interpretations.” Beth Kephart makes a case the memoir in essays. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “No contemporary American author writes with more clarity and depth of feeling about the quotidian moral questions of ordinary people.” Lori Feathers on the novels of Marilynne Robinson. | Book Marks
- New titles from Marilynne Robinson, Nick Hornby, Naomi Novik, and Mariah Carey all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
- Inside the controversy at a Los Angeles-area school that banned, then reinstated, Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye. | Los Angeles Times
- This collection of the world’s most eccentric books includes some quirky, surprising, and just plain weird selections. | The Guardian
- Merve Emre on Ingeborg Bachmann, “whose novels cast a pitiless light on the relationship between patriarchy and fascism.” | NYRB
- Alert: binge-reading is the new Netflix. . . almost. | Wall Street Journal
- Katie Yee grew up reading a children’s book inspired by Chinese mythology, Lao Lao of Dragon Mountain. Twenty years later, she discovered that the author was a white woman. Did that matter? | Los Angeles Review of Books
- Competitive debaters, who “describe a community culture that tacitly allows sexist and racist abuses to go unchecked,” are demanding change. | HuffPost
- “These people surely did not mean to hurt her, yet their ignorance of the facts could have killed her.” Jill McCorkle advises that you don’t drink the kool-aid. | Arrowsmith Press
