TODAY: In 1943, Nikki Giovanni is born. 

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• Molly Jong-Quick remembers a devastating week of loss, diagnoses, and unlearning classes. | Lit Hub Memoir
• Branden Jacobs-Jenkins goes deep on the craft of overhauling his Pulitzer-winning play. | New York Journal
• “It’s about falling for somebody after which wistfully and willfully shedding that somebody, whereas additionally making an attempt to invent a spatial distribution of the soul that will permit one to really feel related to that individual but additionally alone.” Claudia Durastanti on Pier Vittorio Tondelli’s Separate Rooms. | The Paris Evaluate
• Paul North on the top of the American empire and Karl Marx’s essay “The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.” | Los Angeles Evaluate of Books
• “I want, like I want all writers in Africa, to hunt with African language—with African phrases.” A last interview with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o. | The Nation
• Academics focus on the devastating penalties of scholar AI use of their school rooms. | 404 Media
• In protection of adverbs (severely). | Counter Craft 
• Adelle Waldman exhibits some love for Northanger Abbey, Austen’s least beloved novel. | The New Yorker
• “All notions of untranslatability rely the truth is on the fallacy that ‘perfection’ is a perfect that translations ought to aspire to and be judged by.” Geoffrey Brock on the difficulty with specializing in what will get misplaced in translation. | Poetry
• Jessica Taylor considers the similarities between writing romance and tutorial analysis. | Public Books
• “Isn’t it doable that dispatching a Twenty first-century author to Paris to tramp alongside in Twain’s wake would possibly improve the fashionable reader’s appreciation of Twain’s work by proxy? It’s definitely not unattainable.” Caity Weaver makes an attempt to comply with in Mark Twain’s (Parisian) footsteps. | The Atlantic
• Michael Bobelian considers the renewed relevance of Arthur Derounian’s best-selling 1943 exposé of the USA’ Nazi underworld, Beneath Cowl, which “served as a wake-up name for his contemporaries and a everlasting file of the reactionary forces lurking simply beneath the floor of the world’s oldest democracy.” | Los Angeles Evaluate of Books
• Madeleine Watts revisits the hypnotic nature of Antigone Kelefa’s The Island. | The Nation
• “That’s what we misplaced: the symphony of a thoughts that contained us all.” Christopher Bollen on his buddy, Edmund White. | Vulture
• Marilyn Robinson considers life in an occupied America. | New York Evaluate of Books
• “Whether or not we name Lorelei too quick and free or a bit of sluggish on the uptake, we achieve this with the fantasy of discovering reality in velocity.” Jeewon Yoo revisits Anita Bathroom’s Gents Favor Blondes. | Public Books 

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