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• “The fear of ICE has pushed immigrant households in Ventura County to their deaths in methods quick and gradual.” Steven W. Thrasher on what these brutal raids sign for the long run. | Lit Hub Politics
• “Magic and beliefs are each practices of perception.” On the cluttered chook’s nest of Leonora Carrington’s The Stone Door. | Lit Hub Criticism 
• What if Charlie Brown had been a socialist? On the previous and way forward for Malfada, Argentina’s iconic sketch. | Lit Hub Artwork
• From Dickens to Dean Koontz, Ed Simon explores prolific authors, their habits, and the persistent want to provide. | Lit Hub Craft
• Lincoln Michel dives into the newest anemic “state of the novel” discourse. | Counter Craft
• Rachel Kushner shares a number of the books on the syllabus of her Stanford inventive writing class. | The New Yorker  
• Jamieson Webster meditates on goals, ashes,  and the construction of sacrifice. | The Paris Evaluate
• “But maybe what’s extra intriguing is which strains the post-apocalyptic style haven’t crossed.” Isaac Yuen seems at literature and movie of the post-post apocalypse. | Public Books
• Maya C. Popa explores the life and profession of Laura Gilpin, the poet finest remembered because the creator of “The Two-headed Calf.” | Poetry
• “The modern world is so complicated and protean that it’s not attainable to explain it with linear prose and squeeze it into a standard novel’s construction.” Joshua Cohen and Vladimir Sorokin in dialog. | The Paris Evaluate
• Helen Chazan asks, what makes a comic book transgressive? | The Comics Journal
• “That is what the rivers informed me: that life is all the time and completely lived in move and in relation.” Robert Macfarlane and Terry Tempest Williams in dialog. | Orion
• Lola Seaton on Sheila Heti and the phantasm of effortlessness. | New York Evaluate of Books
• “My guide solely briefly mentions Gaza’s mother and father and children, and it triggers protests.” Aymann Ismail on what occurred when pro-Israel protestors got here to his studying. | Slate
• Jonathon Atkinson remembers the “inarticulability” of Lyn Hejinian by her book-length poem, Fall Creek. | n+1
• Alexandra Billet considers the gutting of public broadcasting, and the need of “inventive and informational areas […] shielded from the affect of commerce.” | Jacobin 
• “Technosolutionist approaches to incapacity as one thing that may be eradicated by technological innovation exacerbate present types of erasure by promising a future with out disabled individuals.” Anya Heise-Von Der Lippe on incapacity erasure and technoablism. | Public Books
• Rami Abu Jamous particulars the loss of life of Obeida, one among a whole lot of Palestinians murdered whereas ready for assist distribution to feed his household. | The Nation 
• “Within the shadow of rhetorical warfare and precise persecution, trans writing about intercourse has acquired a curiously contradictory character.” Emily Zhou explores memoirs of trans ladies’s sexualities. | Defector

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