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- Aleksandar Hemon: why I didn’t sign the open letter against Trump. | Literary Hub
- How to tell the future with books: from bibliomancy to chance encounters, books that have changed lives. | Literary Hub
- On the false promises of romantic love: Paul Holdengraber calls Alain de Botton on the telephone. | Literary Hub
- 13 books you should read this June (not a summer preview!). | Literary Hub
- “It was Marcel’s apartment, and seven people were dancing.” A never before published story by Langton Hughes. | The New Yorker
- How Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins’ evangelical Left Behind Rapture–thrillers can teach us about America’s “Money Cult.” | Gawker
- Haiku walks, affairs, and 12 ft. tall puppets: Adam Dalva on life at an artists’ residency. | Guernica
- Keeping up with the Kar-Dashwood sisters: what today’s reality TV stars have in common with Jane Austen’s 19th-century heroines. | The Atlantic
- “There is still a sense that really ‘high status’ literature describes an affluent world that very few people live in, and that can be alienating.” An interview with Rosalie Knecht. | Full Stop
- Amber Sparks investigates why short stories remain commercially—and sometimes critically—overlooked. | Electric Literature
- On Gaelic, Hindi, and language as a colonized space. | The Toast
- Writerly surveillance in action: David Abrams observes a Perkins Restaurant in Butte, Montana. | Catapult
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