TODAY: In 1855, Alfred Tennyson reads from his new book Maud and other poems at a social gathering in the home of Robert and Elizabeth Browning in London.
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M. L. Rio considers the deeply dreamy nature of writing. | Lit Hub Craft
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- On the Evangelical Christians (and Hobby Lobby owners) who want to use Bible museums to push Americans further right. | Lit Hub Politics
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- The Brontë sisters finally have their umlauts at Westminster Abbey. | The Guardian
- Sasha Karsavina examines Mingwei Song’s Fear of Seeing, the first two books of Han Song’s Hospital trilogy, and the golden age of Chinese science fiction. | Los Angeles Review of Books
