LitHub Daily: May 26, 2015

• On revisiting Colm Tóibín’s first novel, The South, after abandoning it many years before. | Literary Hub
• Manic pixie dream genie: a short story by Salman Rushdie, everyone’s favorite cyber-enforcer. | The New Yorker
• Remedying the New York Times’ summer reading list, which has finally reached peak whiteness. | The New Inquiry, The New York Times, Gawker Review of Books
• Humans are awful; we support the decision to narrate all future books from the perspective of elephants. | The Los Angeles Review of Books
• “What an older cultured French man named Alain thinks about the erotic value of the exposed female navel is not exactly a question of burning, universal interest.” Milan Kundera is back with some more thoughts about women. | New Republic
• First metaphors, then the world: robots are learning poetry, the singularity is nigh. | Poetry for Robots
• A Norwegian fairy tale about the worst Tinder date ever. | The Paris Review
• Over 150 authors, including Maraget Atwood and Colm Tóibín, have added their names to a letter condemning the gruesome murders of three bloggers in Bangladesh and urging the government to take action. | The Guardian
• Cheating second death: resuscitating Victor Serge, an alloy of Kafka and Orwell. | The Baffler

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