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How should educators handle teaching troubling but worthwhile texts? Deborah Appleman offers some alternative approaches. | Lit Hub Teaching
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“When I look hard at Lisa Frank’s yellow dogs, bright as highlighter pens, I feel unsettled in a way I can’t pinpoint.” How the Trapper Keeper became the most popular school supply of all time—and shaped a generation of writers. | Lit Hub
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From Anne Boleyn to Kamala Harris, a brief history of (men) calling women witches. | Lit Hub History
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“Joe as Nominee, Barack as Backstage Guru.” Gabriel Debenedetti on the latest chapter in Barack Obama and Joe Biden’s long alliance. | Lit Hub Politics
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“I remember the feel of these rooms much more than I even remember the people in them.” Akiko Busch on the ambiguities of home. | Lit Hub Memoir
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Neither submissive princess nor nefarious witch: Olesya Salnikova Gilmore in praise of Baba Yaga and other powerful women of Slavic fairy tales. | Lit Hub
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“Attempts to ban books are accelerating across the country at a rate never seen since tracking began more than 20 years ago.” An overview of recent censorship efforts. | The New York Times
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Suzanne Trimel on PEN America’s centenary and the attack on Salman Rushdie. | PEN America
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Larissa Diakiw considers ecological grief. | Hazlitt
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“Astor’s future was the end-point of the inexorable march of progress.” Iwan Rhys Morus on John Jacob Astor’s “high-voltage scientific romance,” A Journey in Other Worlds. | Public Domain Review
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What a letter purportedly authored by Sherlock Holmes reveals about the early, avid Sherlockian fandom. | Atlas Obscura
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Some of the best books set in (or about) New York. | Time Out
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Ashawnta Jackson on the feminist art roots of fan-made videos. | JSTOR Daily
Also on Lit Hub: Rachel Aviv discusses diagnoses, introspection, and writing about real people • Stories where nothing happens in the middle of nowhere • Read an excerpt from Jamila Rowser and Robyn Smith’s graphic novel, Wash Day Diaries
