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A look at Anton Chekhov’s beloved summer home in Ukraine, a “repository of hope” under threat amid Putin’s invasion. | Lit Hub Ukraine
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“Even my dearest friend saw me, on some level, as a pig rolling in a shit pile of free time.” Aimée Lutkin on the tensions between friends with kids and friends without. | Lit Hub
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How do words evolve over time? | Lit Hub Language
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Robert Tuesday Anderson considers Jane Austen’s obsession with food in her novels, and shares a recipe for “Chawton Cottage Plum Pudding.” | Lit Hub Food
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New titles by Anne Tyler, NoViolet Bulawayo, and Elena Ferrante all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Month. | Book Marks
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“For now, I just message everyone: ‘And you? How are you?’ Hearing an answer is the only thing that matters.” Ilya Kaminsky speaks to Odesa writers about literature in wartime. | The Paris Review
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Sara Nović reflects on CODA’s historic Best Picture win and the limits of on-screen representation. | Slate
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“Amazon will never be the same as sitting on the carpet in some under-trafficked aisle and reading your first Sweet Valley High.” Alexandra Lange digs into the great mall bookstore renaissance. | Bloomberg CityLab
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Hannah Sampson makes a case for books as the best travel souvenirs. (No arguments there.) | The Washington Post
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“Customers will come in and say, ‘I just want something that’s gay and happy.’” Elizabeth A. Harris on the rise of LGBTQ+ romance. | The New York Times
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Why families need more bilingual children’s books. | Chalkbeat Newark
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“My mother taught me how to make everything legible when language was not.” Ocean Vuong on writing and grieving. | TIME
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“It goes without saying that this tragedy has joined us together for a lifetime.” Why Kate Tsurkan chooses to stay in Ukraine. | The New Yorker
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Matt Bell explains how to write a novel in three drafts. | Publishers Weekly
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A lesson from book bans past: When the Kern County, CA Board of Supervisors banned The Grapes of Wrath. | JSTOR Daily
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Why is everyone suddenly reading the 1962 novelette Cassandra at the Wedding? | The Strategist
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Esmé Weijun Wang’s life in banquets. | Bon Appetit
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Greta Thunberg will publish a book this fall with new writing on the climate crisis from more than 100 contributors. | The Guardian
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Joan Neuberger on what “poetic truth” means in a time of war in Ukraine. | Los Angeles Review of Books
Also on Lit Hub:
How writing a novel helped Jules Ohman say gay • Naomi Klein on the resilience of Egyptian activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah • On the joys of digging through archives from home • What happens to a world populated by centenarians? • How to live, eat, and drink like your favorite writers • On Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima, which takes seriously “the tragedy of childhood and adolescence” • How the Clinton years transformed the Democratic Party • Clytemnestra: archetypically bad wife or heroically avenging mother? • Kate Folk describes how journaling betters her writing practice • Bored by your own memoir? Take Maude Newton’s advice • On the tumultuous marriage of Miriam Leslie and Willie Wilde • Some unlikely and hopeful infographics (humpback whales are recovering!) • How Marshall McLuhan introduced God into media theory • Sasha LaPointe on the power of a naming ceremony • On the violent and coercive legacies of British Imperialism • Martha Wainwright on growing up among artists • Why Margaret Thatcher waged war on the BBC • A flop, a war, and a “secret” wedding • Megan Mayhew Bergman shares her great-grandmother’s cake recipe • What’s the real story behind America’s national parks? • How we prepare for the worst case scenario (or fail to) • On the early days of feminist architecture • The pleasures of writing a serialized novel • The case for letting kids come up with their own bedtime stories • “Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea” • How Langston Hughes has influenced generations of South African writers
