The Better of the Literary Web, Each Day TODAY: In 1950, Belle da Costa Greene dies. “Greater than that, political artwork that seeks solely to talk to this second tends to flatten narrative in its try and be related.” Kevin Nguyen doesn’t suppose we’d like well timed novels. | Lit Hub Politics After 20 years, […]
Might 9, 2025, 11:08am Final week, a whole bunch of publishers, theatre firms, symphonies, and group arts applications abruptly misplaced funding. Beloved establishments from the Bay Space to Harlem have been rudely knowledgeable of canceled NEA grants final week. And as my colleague James Folta reported in depth, the listing of affected arts organizations solely […]
The Better of the Literary Web, Each Day 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 […]
The Better of the Literary Web, Each Day TODAY: In 1898, Vicente Aleixandre is born. Philipp Schönthaler considers the meaninglessness of company storytelling. | MIT Press Reader “Context is every thing.” Nancy Naomi Carlson applies the concept of relative pitch to translation. | Poetry “Like most narratives of violence, rape tales are likely to […]
April 24, 2025, 3:48pm This political second in America has been chilling totally free speech and dissent, however like so many issues about America, this authorities and vigilante repression isn’t new. Earlier than Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk, and Mohsen Mahdawi talking out in opposition to struggle and genocide, there have been Artwork Younger, Max Eastman, […]
April 18, 2025, 1:53pm By now you’ve for certain seen the footage of the newest Blue Origin flight, this one passengered by Katy Perry, Gayle King, Lauren Sánchez, amongst others. The flight technically crossed the Kármán Line into area, on a rocket courtesy of Jeff Amazon. And regardless of having its personal mission patch, the […]
It was a muggy, overcast afternoon in June 2010 when Ann Foley’s life unraveled. The day had received off to a pleasing sufficient begin; Ann and her husband, Don, took their two sons, Tim and Alex, for a celebratory lunch at an Indian restaurant not removed from the household house in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was […]
The Better of the Literary Web, Each Day TODAY: In 1826, Weber’s opera Oberon premieres in London. Viet Thanh Nguyen explains why most American literature is the literature of empire. | Lit Hub Criticism Eleanor Lanahan displays on the literary legacy of The Nice Gatsby, her grandfather’s timeless novel, because it turns 100. | Lit […]
April 10, 2025, 2:13pm Immediately, the Cleveland Basis introduced the winners of its 90s annual Anisfield-Wolf Ebook Awards, which search to acknowledge books that “have made vital contributions to our understanding of racism and our appreciation of the wealthy variety of human cultures.” It’s America’s solely endowed juried prize expressly devoted to celebrating literature about […]
April 7, 2025, 2:15pm You’ve in all probability already heard the information: Mr. Beast, the YouTuber your cousins are obsessive about, and James Patterson, the novelist your uncles are obsessive about, have lastly teamed as much as write a guide collectively. The thriller is Mr. Beast’s first guide, however Patterson, the patron saint of airport […]
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