THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

• Ed Simon explores Americanism in Edgar Allan Poe’s work (and the abject horrors of being buried alive). | Lit Hub Criticism
• In case you need even more horror, Cory Doctorow explains how corporate tech enshittifies apps to skirt the law. | Lit Hub Technology
• Shannon Bowring considers the art of getting inside a despicable character’s head. | Lit Hub Craft
• Philippe Sands examines Pinochet’s Chile, the Nazis, and how democracy erodes into fascism. | Lit Hub History
• Caren Beilin’s TBR features books by Isabella Hammad, Stephen King, Lana Lin, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• “In all the time I was struggling to nurture my babies, the key to understanding true nourishment lay in satisfying my own body.” Yamini Pathak on motherhood and acts of care. | Lit Hub Food
• Laura Venita Green on how learning Italian improved her writing in English: “By reading other cultures widely, we can start to see that there truly are countless ways to tell a story.” | Lit Hub Craft
• “When I had extricated myself, and my money, from the villain’s clutches, I turned to find my wife gone from the bench on the platform where she had sat down to wait for me.” Read from John Banville’s new novel, Venetian Vespers. | Lit Hub Fiction
• Philip Oltermann untangles the story of the “Pushkin Job”—an international rare book heist. | The Guardian
• Anna North makes the case that the virtues of boredom have been greatly overstated. | The Cut
• Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi reflects on enduring two years of genocide in Gaza. | The Nation
• Orisanmi Burton considers how to honor Assata Shakur’s artistic and political legacies. | Protean Magazine
• Jasper Cattell on why “the fate of graduate student unionization is more critical now than ever.” | Public Books
• Yan Lianke on the similarities between an author who is “blocked from publication in his own country yet cannot live anywhere else” and a hedgehog. | The Paris Review

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