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• Adam Verner explores the uncanny soullessness of AI-narrated audiobooks. | Lit Hub Technology
• Are Americans being conditioned to accept delayed elections? “Democracies don’t usually die all at once.” | Lit Hub Politics
• Maria Reva, Jasmin Schreiber, and Ed Yong discuss the inspiration of snails, ecological grief, and why “nihilism is a luxury we truly cannot afford right now.” | Lit Hub In Conversation
• Daniel A. Olivas reflects on how little has changed after 41 years of writing about the abuses of the American immigration system. | Lit Hub Politics
• Adedayo Agarau documents years of ritual killings in Nigeria and the trauma of returning to the street he grew up on. | Lit Hub Memoir
• Read “Toni Morrison,” a prose poem by Nikki Giovanni from the collection The New Book. | Lit Hub Poetry
• From migrants and colonizers to gossip and war, Emily Wilson examines The Aeneid and its relevance to the modern world. | Lit Hub Criticism
• “I was convinced that I had destroyed the people I loved most in the world.” Miriam Toews considers the complexities of grief, guilt, and memory. | Lit Hub Memoir
• “I had few pleasures to call my own.” Read from Nathan Harris’s new novel, Amity. | Lit Hub Fiction
• Ben Collins on why The Onion returned to print and if Infowars is still on the table. | Wired
• Devoney Looser discusses the wild and wonderful world of Janeites. | Public Books
• “Oliver is bracingly, uncommonly honest about her fear that she might be a loser.” Maggie Millner considers Mary Oliver and shame. | The Yale Review
• How hardcore punk took root in Reagan’s Orange County. | JSTOR Daily
• From his 1982 book Abusing Science, Philip Kitcher critiques creationism in classrooms and explains the dangers of calls for rhetorical balance. | The MIT Press Reader
• Tammy Lai-Ming Ho examines two works of fiction united by the “intimate and perilous” act of teaching. | Los Angeles Review of Books

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