TODAY: In 1849, Fyodor Dostoevsky (left) and fellow members of the literary Petrashevsky Circle are sentenced to death (he and some others are reprieved at the last moment and exiled to the katorga prison camps in Siberia.
- Emily Raboteau collects the reactions of our children to President Donald Trump. | Literary Hub
- A new poem by Claudia Rankine: “to wake in justice in love we thought / we were ready to be just as good to be better.” | Literary Hub
- David Ulin: Beware a kinder, gentler brand of American fascism. | Literary Hub
- From Westworld to Ex Machina: Bad old ideas in a brave new world. | Literary Hub
- Considering Szilárd Borbély, and the rural devastation of the dispossessed. | Literary Hub
- “You come from people who have always made a way out of no way:” Jacqueline Woodson on comforting her son in the aftermath of the election. | The New York Times Magazine
- A profile of “true, unrepentant nerd” and “brilliant storyteller” Michael Chabon (and an excerpt from his forthcoming novel Moonglow). | BuzzFeed Reader
- “Why can there not be a female antihero?” A profile of Chris Kraus. | The New Yorker
- English deserves to be transformed by the people it’s been forced on: An interview with James Hannaham. | Public Books
- “A literary culture whose tough-mindedness 20 years ago often verged on outright cruelty, has turned horribly emollient.” On the absence of bad book reviews today. | The New Statesmen
- “The question of what is it like to live under an autocratic dictator? has gone from a desire to understand my family to a desire to understand what will happen now.” Jenny Zhang on building a movement. | The New Inquiry
- Reading chaos: Ariana Reines, Melissa Buzzeo, and CA Conrad discuss divining and astrological techniques. | The Believer Logger
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