TODAY: In 1891, Scribner’s Magazine accepted 29-year-old Edith Wharton’s “Mrs. Manstey’s View”; appearing that July, it would be her first published story.
  • 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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