London’s Royal Society: 17th-Century Boys Club or Font of Knowledge?
Trial, Error, and Some Very Misguided Experiments
Adrienne Celt on Nabokov and the Inspiration for Her Novel
In Conversation with C.P. Lesley on the New Books Network
Beirut Hellfire Society
Rawi Hage
"One sunny day at the start of a ceasefire, a father drove with his son down towards where the fighting had been. A cadaver had been lying on the ground for days, mutilated. The son, who was named Pavlov, and his father, an undertaker, loaded the remains into plastic bags and carried them to the hearse. The cadaver’s belly had been opened by a bullet wound and vermin had claimed it and multiplied inside the soft organs, gorging on the entrails. Father and son gathered the scattered items that belonged to the dead: a loose shoe, a bag filled with mouldy food, broken glasses."
Ruth Reichl on M.F.K. Fisher’s Lifetime of Joyous Eating
"To Mary Frances food was a metaphor for living."
Jhumpa Lahiri and Hari Kunzru Reflect on America’s Immigration Crisis
On the Eve of the 4th of July, PEN America Looks to the Immigration Crisis
The Togolese “Fixer” Who Helps Immigrants Play the U.S. Visa Lottery
Is the Path to Citizenship a Question of Trial and Error?
Reading Women‘s Most Anticipated Books of 2019, Part 2
Kendra Winchester and Autumn Privett with Special Guest @Lupita.Reads
More News Tomorrow
Susan Richards Shreve
"The letter from Roosevelt McCrary that upended Georgie’s life came the morning of her seventieth birthday—written on Camp Minnie HaHa stationery and dated June 18, 2007. The handwriting sloped, the way Georgie’s father’s had been, the way children were taught to write script in the thirties—the paper smudged from handling. He must have written Georgie and then reread the letter again and again for months before he decided to mail it."
“Jackpot”
Mona Simpson
"There was still my father. After Daniel proposed, we stayed on the bed and made a flurry of calls, starting with our closest friends. In a few hours, everyone knew. Everyone, that is, except my father. My father was different. Most of my life we hadn’t had a working telephone number for him. My mother would dial and a recording would click on saying that the line had been disconnected and that there was no new number. Eventually we’d hear from him again, often from overseas. He and his wife Lucille traveled to Macau, to Rio, to Singapore."
Bret Easton Ellis: “I didn’t expect White to be controversial among millennials.”
In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl
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