TODAY: In 1616, Cervantes died; four hundred years later, you still haven’t read Don Quixote.
- Russell Banks drives around Alaska in a Hummer because “these are the Last Days. The planet is running out of everything except human beings.” | Literary Hub
- For many better VIDA counts to come: a list of every literary magazine with a female editor and a database for writers of color, courtesy of Jazmine Hughes and Durga Chew-Bose. | The Review Review, Google Docs
- Translated from the original equine: is animal experience unimaginable for humans? | The New Yorker
- “The reality is more like you’re sitting alone, post-carnival, on a cigarette-butt encrusted patch of grass typing your own name into Bing.” The darker side of publishing your debut. | BuzzFeed
- A writer’s writer on steroids: on Karl Ove Knausgaard’s critical acclaim and cult following. | Vulture
- “I felt it was insincere of people to express shock when confronting the fact that lethal police violence toward black men is endemic to American society.” On the far-reaching roots of police brutality. | N+1
- Lessons learned from our failed novels of yore. | The Missouri Review
- “Poetry is what’s thrilling, while a poem is that poor thing with eleven readers, eight of them members of the poet’s extended family.” On the etymology of poetry. | The Paris Review
- Two new books about Japanese internment camps are telling “the story of this national disgrace, long buried by the victims as well as by their oppressors.” | The New York Times Sunday Book Review
- The lineage of bad borrowing practices is a lengthy one: a scholar has discovered erased notes in the margins of a 750-year-old manuscript. | Hyperallergic
- How can a poet address our current state of affairs? Not alone. | The Rumpus
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