The Better of the Literary Web, Each Day TODAY: In 1877, Renée Vivien is born. A British poet who wrote in French, she is taken into account one of many twentieth century’s first notable lesbian poets.  Kyra Davis Lurie on Sugar Hill, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s racism, and reimagining The Nice Gatsby as a Black American […]

“Some intercourse expresses love, / Some expresses harm. / Typically, hate. / Intercourse can convey glowing lightness, /  Or unbelievable darkness. /  Typically, each…” These are strains transcribed from the “superdoom supermoon” at the start of my new novel Venice Peach. The spectrum of sexuality has at all times been huge; the truth that all […]

Photograph by Gelatin At the moment’s visitor put up is excerpted from the brand new e book Write with Confidence by Lisa Fellinger. We’ve all been there. You’re at a celebration, an occasion, and even simply standing within the college decide up line, and somebody strikes up an informal dialog. Eventually, they ask: “What do you […]

In 2022, Jacinda Ardern, the then Prime Minister of New Zealand, was approached by a stranger in an airport rest room. Ardern was alone, washing her palms, when a middle-aged girl walked as much as her on the sink. She stood uncomfortably shut, Ardern remembers in her new memoir, “A Totally different Type of Energy”—“so […]

Picture by Laurin Rinder / Adobe Inventory Abdilatif Abdallah (b. 1946, Mombasa) is a serious Swahili poet who was, till just lately, largely unknown to English readers. A fantastic quantity of his work, The Imaginative Imaginative and prescient in Abdilatif Abdallah’s Voice of Agony (College of Michigan Press, 2024), has been edited and launched by Annmarie Drury. […]

Lots has gone incorrect below Donald Trump, however a minimum of we narrowly prevented the disaster of a feminine president. Don’t get me incorrect, I favored Kamala Harris. Nevertheless it’s exhausting to think about how any lady would have managed the unrelenting cascade of crises which have descended the escalator this 12 months. Ladies don’t […]

The cartoon character Mafalda, together with her large spherical head, sixties bob, triangular costume, and black Mary Janes, seems harmless. However this inquisitive girl-against-the-world is not any ingenue—Mafalda typically fires off sharp, incisive, and cynical observations concerning the political world round her. In Latin America, the sketch named after her is famous: though it ran […]

Il Premio Italo Calvino ha assegnato la sua XXXVIII edizione advert Andrea Pauletto per il romanzo Crack. La cerimonia di premiazione si è svolta al Circolo dei lettori di Torino, alla presenza della giuria composta da Sandro Bonvissuto, Antonio Franchini, Daniela Marcheschi, Raffaello Palumbo Mosca e Carmen Pellegrino. Accanto al vincitore, sono state conferite tre menzioni […]

Immediately in Books gathers a bunch of reports from across the web, however we cowl some tales ourselves. Right here’s what we had been monitoring this week. Amid the courtroom battle over the way forward for the IMLS, Trump issued a finances proposal for 2026 that will make any of the authorized choices moot: the […]

The Better of the Literary Web, Each Day TODAY: In 1943, Nikki Giovanni is born.  Evelyn McDonnell on the ethics of Notes to John, industrial exploitation, and the promoting of Joan Didion’s privateness. | Lit Hub Criticism “Ants deserve extra poems.” Hannah Brooks-Motl praises poetry about bugs by John Clare, William Blake, David Seung, and […]