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• Kamila Shamsie gives a close and highly critical reading of English PEN’s charter. | Lit Hub Politics
• “Remember to rest.” In which Maris Kreizman attempts to heed her own advice about publishing a book and going on a book tour. | Lit Hub Advice
• Kirsty McHugh and Ian Scott explore how Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and more chose their pen names. | Lit Hub Biography
• Catherine Lacey’s TBR  includes books by Jen Calleja, Tezer Özlü, and Georgi Gospodinov! | Lit Hub Criticism
• Siouxzi Connor recommends Sapphic books that explore hydrofeminism by Dylin Hardcastle, Julia Armfield, Sophie Mackintosh, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• How Edna Lewis became a queer icon of Southern cooking. | Lit Hub Food
• Radha Vatsal remembers the literary legacy of her great-great grandfather, Nandshankar Mehta, and traces the forgotten history of South Asian cosmopolitanism. | Lit Hub History
• Jane Smiley and Susan Swan discuss the importance of women who take up space: “Being unusually tall makes you feel set apart because mostly everybody else sees someone with the same weight, height and coloring every day.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
•  “Upstairs, I paused at my bedroom door, hearing Rick’s delicate, papery snore, and walked down the hall, pushing open the door to Alex’s room.” Read from Jayson Greene’s new novel, UnWorld. | Lit Hub Fiction
• “Few have cared so deeply for the poor or taken the quest to both know and live out truth more seriously.” Ben Woollard on Tolstoy’s Christian anarchism. | JSTOR Daily
• “If we value the medicine the land offers us so generously, we must become medicine for the land.” Robin Wall Kimmerer explores the precious forest pharmacy of the Adirondacks. | Orion
• “Brian’s genius was bound up in his fixation on these paradoxes: the absence that haunts every presence; the love that’s most vital just before it drains away; pain and beauty too enmeshed to be pulled apart.” Charlotte Shane on Ben Greenman’s I Am Brian Wilson and the late musician’s legacy. | n+1
• Sophie Gonick considers the construction of migrant spaces in New York. | Public Books
• “Italian rhythm is obviously different from that of English, but it has a pronounced physiognomy: this aspect allowed the translator to hear it naturally and render it instinctively into its linguistic twin.” On poetry in translation between English and Italian. | Asymptote
• Authors are taking to TikTok to prove they aren’t using generative AI. | Wired

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