Today: In 1895, Oscar Wilde was arrested after losing a libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.
- Oscar Wilde’s wonderful speech from the dock. | UMKC School of Law
- Alabama, for one, does not think Harper Lee was the victim of elder abuse. | WSJ
- Random House has revealed the cover for David Mitchell’s series-of-tweets-turned novel. | LA Times
- On the other side of the Internet divide, Salman Rushdie blames technological incompetence for his pans of several classic works. | The Independent
- The Audubon Society fires back at bird-lover and ‘dishonest intellectual,’ Jonathan Franzen. | Audubon Society
- “We believe in Ezra Pound’s charge to ‘make it new’ and/or Andre 3000’s revelation that ‘you only funky as your last cut.’” On poetry and hip-hop. | Poetry Magazine
- “I wish I’d felt proud rather than grateful.” Saeed Jones on being a writer of color in a publishing world that is 89% white. | BuzzFeed
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has a story in the New Yorker this week. | The New Yorker
- On Mexico’s polyphonic, unflinching literary tradition. | Bookanista
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