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- Announcing the winners of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. | Literary Hub
- What two very different covers say about our view of Sylvia Plath. | Literary Hub
- Why digital note-taking will never replace the real-life journal. | Literary Hub
- What did happen to the girls at Hanging Rock? Maile Meloy on a 50-year-old literary mystery. | Literary Hub
- The prettiest of deaths: on consumption chic and impossible standards of beauty. | Literary Hub
- 14 books you should read this October. | Literary Hub
- A novel that says more about the days we are living in than any book I have read: Read Ursula K. Le Guin’s 2006 review of Seeing by José Saramago | Book Marks
- A novel that says more about the days we are living in than any book I have read: Read Ursula K. Le Guin’s 2006 review of Seeing by José Saramago | Book Marks
- Ten-year-old Hemingway wrote about boats, but 11-year-old Austen wrote “tales of sexual misdemeanour, of female drunkenness and violence.” On the humbling juvenilia of famous artists. | The Guardian
- “His daughter was nearly twelve, and difficult to talk to.” A new story from Sarah Shun-lien Bynum. | The New Yorker
- The 100 best screenwriters of all time, ranked by other screenwriters. | Vulture
- “There’s something about suburbia which is just so bizarre.” Terry Gross speaks with cartoonist Roz Chast about her illustrated love letter to New York, Going into Town. | NPR
- “An unexpected calm carries us for a while—the kind that only comes from briefly stepping out of your own life and into someone else’s.” On taking the Joseph Conrad Cycle Tour of London. | The Times Literary Supplement
- This five-volume, $625 cookbook aims to be “a call for cooks to rethink one of the world’s oldest foods”: bread. | The New York Times
- “The most disturbing thing about my mother’s death was that I wasn’t at all afraid or sad. I was devoid of emotion, defined by lack.” Short fiction by Sarah Wang. | BOMB
