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• Sofi Oksanen examines Russia’s history of imperialist aggression, its war on Ukraine, and the importance of preserving personal and collective memory. | Lit Hub History
• Jehanne Dubrow reads Ovid’s Metamorphoses (as a military spouse): “Writing is itself an act of metamorphosis; it fixes a narrative to the page so that our small lives endure beyond us.” | Lit Hub Craft
• Titles by Laila Lalami, Mai Der Vang, Colum McCann, and more are among the 25 new books out today! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• “We will have to fend for ourselves and fend for each other. I wanted to explore what that community response actually looks like in real-time.” Emma Pattee on earthquakes and her novel, Tilt. | Lit Hub In Conversation
• Charles Hecker recommends nonfiction books that explain modern Russia by Joshua Yaffa, Svetlana Alexievich, David Remnick, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• “I can’t help but understand, intimately, just how much rides on the potential financial performance of my creativity these days.” Jinwoo Chong explains why he spent part of his advance money on seeing Adele live in Vegas. | Lit Hub Craft
• Philip Carr-Gomm explores the relationship between the naked body and unconventional spirituality across time. | Lit Hub Religion
• “We are all shards in the smash-up.” Read from Colum McCann’s novel, Twist. | Lit Hub Fiction
• In the debut issue of Amulet, “a new literary magazine offering a fresh perspective on spirituality, religion, and mysticism for seekers and skeptics alike,” Sheila Heti on writing about the ineffable. | Amulet
• “Garner has given us diaries that read like they are inventing a new language made from utterly familiar materials: fresh, raw, vibrating with life.” Leslie Jamison meditates on Helen Garner’s diaries. | The Paris Review
• Aaron Timms considers the use of AI in cinema and beyond: “What matters here is not this particular infraction but the precedent it sets, the course it establishes for culture.” | The Baffler
• What Ross Macdonald’s 1971 mystery novel The Underground Man has to do with 2025’s Los Angeles fires. | The New Yorker
• “Every time I lift a barbell, I’m incapable of thinking beyond what my body is doing.” How power lifting made R.O. Kwon a better writer. | Harper’s Bazaar
• Gerry Canavan considers the left’s relationship with Tolkien: “Since the founding of the tiny corner of academia known as science fiction studies in the 1970s, there has been a sense that science fiction is of the left, while fantasy is of the right.” | Dissent 

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