TODAY: In 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge dies.

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• Alex Poppe considers her family’s history of immigration and why distinctions between expats, economic migrants, an refugees shouldn’t matter. | Lit Hub Politics
• Michael Clune’s Pan, Barry Mazor’s Blood Harmony: The Everly Brothers Story, and Linn Ullman’s Girl, 1983 all feature among the best reviewed books of the week. | Book Marks
• Kalie Cassidy recommends books that explore the myths of sirens by Cassandra Khaw, Rose Sutherland, Emilia Hart, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• “On the Internet, she says, a new platform where students can log on and do homework together. From all over the world. It’s a lockdown thing.” Read from Linn Ullmann’s novel Girl, 1983, translated by Martin Aitken. | Lit Hub Fiction
• “Technosolutionist approaches to disability as something that can be eradicated through technological innovation exacerbate existing forms of erasure by promising a future without disabled people.” Anya Heise-Von Der Lippe on disability erasure and technoablism. | Public Books
• Rami Abu Jamous details the death of Obeida, one of hundreds of Palestinians murdered while waiting for aid distribution to feed his family. | The Nation 
• Brooklyn Public Library librarians recommend eight books to help you understand the present moment in America. | Electric Literature
• Is Anita Loos’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes actually the Great American Novel? Why the undersung book deserves more appreciation. | The Paris Review 
• “In the shadow of rhetorical warfare and actual persecution, trans writing about sex has acquired a curiously contradictory character.” Emily Zhou explores memoirs of trans women’s sexualities. | Defector
• What did Agatha Christie actually do that time she disappeared? As it turns out, we still don’t know. | JSTOR Daily

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