- Like all glorious codifications of divine mysteries, it has to do with love: on the anniversary of Italo Calvino’s death, read Mary McCarthy’s 1981 review of If on a winter’s night a traveler. | Book Marks
- “We consent to the wrong life in small ways, less by what we say than what we don’t.” Kathleen Alcott on intimacy, breakups, and the significance of a shared meal. | The Guardian
- 22 tarot card-book pairings to consider, “whether you believe in the mystical power of tarot or if you’re just smitten with its aesthetics.” | Signature
- “To sort, Solomon-like, through someone else’s story in books is a responsibility not to be taken lightly.” On packing up a mother’s library after she has died. | The Millions
- “It’s a form of media that is available to nearly everyone.” How feminists in Indonesia are using zines to communicate their cause. | Broadly
- Sheila Heti on the short fictions of Fleur Jaeggy, which “attempt to be in concert with some mysterious void.” | The New Yorker
- “I am tired / so I wife myself. / Down here / the boys are theoretical.” A poem by Morgan Parker. | Shondaland
- “I try to avoid writing in my favorite time period by assembling—is there any way I can make this sound more dignified?—tableaux of found objects from within my own house.” Ann Beattie’s procrastination routine. | The Paris Review
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