What We Loved This Week
The Lit Hub Staff on the Patrick Melrose Novels, the Boston Celtics, and Alan Rickman's head in an urn
Richard Russo on Loving Flawed Family Members
"Like My Grandfather and Father, I Don’t Demand or Expect Perfection in Those I Love"
Rubik
Elizabeth Tan
“It’s Sunday evening and there’s nothing to eat. Elena’s bladeless fan pivots in monochrome silence, the centerpiece of a room that’s untidy in an engineered way, like movie teenage bedrooms.”
Rebecca Solnit on Skipping High School and California Culture
In Conversation with Paul Holdengraber
Reading The Golden Notebook During a Summer of Too Many Weddings
On Doris Lessing's Exploration of the "Free Woman"
How My Father’s Strike Nearly Broke Our Town in Two
Kerri Arsenault on an Early Lesson in Labor and Loyalty
Why Do Horror Stories Resonate So Deeply Right Now?
From Get Out to The Changeling, These Are Creepy (Fictional) Times
How My Father Introduced Me to Precision Engineering
On the Art of Turning Shapeless Hard Metal Into Objects of Beauty and Utility
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
Hanif Abdurraqib on Zora Neale Hurston, Jia Tolentino on Melissa Broder, and more
“Frank at the End of the World”
Tracy Daugherty
“A raindrop appeared in Bern’s right eye the night before his trip. A mote, a foreign object?”
Dear Book Therapist: What Do I Read When the Worst Has Happened?
Two Letter Writers For Whom Staring Over Isn't an Option
For Viv Albertine, Honesty Is As Punk As It Gets
Judy Berman in Conversation with the Writer and Legendary Member of The Slits
The Librarians Who Moonlight as Artists: A Roundtable Discussion
Six Information Professionals on Balancing Art and Archives
From Tommy Pico’s Book-Length Poem, Junk
“How can 'happiness' be anything more than a metaphor for privilege.”
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