TODAY: In 1810, Lord Byron swims throughout the Hellespont, a tumultuous strait in Turkey, simply as legendary Greek hero Leander supposedly swam the identical four-mile stretch.  

• Charlotte Beradt on the psychological results of totalitarianism and how Nazi Germany perfected the artwork of worry. | Lit Hub Historical past
• Tobias Carroll explains what Elon Musk doesn’t perceive about Iain M. Banks. | Lit Hub Criticism
• Sam Weller on Ray Bradbury’s underappreciated traditional: “The Martian Chronicles is a critical e-book about critical human themes. It’s science fiction as a mirrored image of modernity.” | Lit Hub Criticism
• Cutter Wooden on Thomas Browne and the thrill and potentialities of exploring the unknown. | Lit Hub Craft
• Mitchell S. Jackson reads Shakespeare for the primary time in his 40s: “[E]ven on this dogged tradition battle—no, particularly on this fierce battle for the rule of white tradition—I’m claiming outdated William of Stratford as mines, too.” | Esquire
• What does it take to write down a cookbook? Jenn Sit, editorial director of cooking at Clarkson Potter, talks culinary inspiration and new meals canons. | Eater
• “Kemp’s focus camps literalize gender expectations as obligatory, inescapable constructions wherein folks aren’t people however representatives of a super.” Arielle Isack considers the heteropessimism of Sophie Kemp’s fiction. | The Baffler
• Jill Lepore recommends 100 traditional books for 100 days of the Trump administration. | The New Yorker
• Daniel Lavery needs to know what’s happening with e-book festivals and the ability of storytelling. | The Chatner
• Maddalena Poli on why pre-modern Chinese language literature is in. | Los Angeles Assessment of Books
• Francis Northwood seems to be on the problematic enterprise of the power fueling AI. | The Baffler
• Sadie Stein remembers Jane Gardam, who has died at 96. | The New York Instances
• Feroz Reasonably talks to novelist and poet Aria Aber about language, dislocation, and extra. | Public Books
• Viet Thanh Nguyen discusses household historical past, otherness, and the primary 100 days of the second Trump administration. | Democracy Now!
• “It’s the day by day, diaristic churn that offers her unloosed first novel the sense of a completely textured fictional world.” Anne Enright examines the connection between Helen Garner’s fiction and her diaries. | London Assessment of Books
• “What’s plain is that 4chan helped type the content material ecosystem as we all know it.” Kyle Chayka on the life, loss of life, and disastrous legacy of the notorious imageboard. | The New Yorker
• “Permitting re-creation of recognized tales by new authors provides these monsters an afterlife of their very own, leaving lasting impacts on the style for many years, and even centuries to return.” Olivia Pavao on the general public area as horror hero. | Public Books
• Gina Gagliano catches up with comics publishers 4 months after initially speaking to them about the consequences of Trump’s tariffs on their work. | The Comics Journal
• Zoe Dubno considers Shulamith Firestone’s Airless Areas and how capitalism makes us all depressing. | The Nation

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