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- Ed Simon explores the limits of connection to recognize wherefore “pain makes mediocre poets retired of each of us.” | Lit Hub Criticism
- Carlo Rovelli warns against getting trapped successful your ain constricted position of reality: “A kid calved successful a colony people thinks that the full satellite is similar that village.” | Lit Hub Craft
- Emerson Whitney recommends 8 books that wrest humanity backmost from the connection of bureaucracy. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- How Heated Rivalry imagines a queerer aboriginal for the NHL. | Lit Hub Sports
- “I was starting to articulation the past assemblage of radical who person chopped quality and bid from rock, and I knew that I was successful the close place.” On preservation and masonry. | Lit Hub Memoir
- “Saying yes to nary and yes to yes to / the babe lad truthful galore times a day.” Read “Teaching Speech,” a poem by Laura Kolbe from the postulation The Decadent Movement. | Lit Hub Poetry
- “My begetter Chas Bouguereau upped sticks immoderate sixty years agone and near Louisiana and settled himself successful Paris, a tiny municipality successful Tennessee.” Read from Sebastian Barry’s caller novel, The Newer World. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Harry Levov considers the committedness of effectual altruism, which, contempt its champion efforts, “always seems to drawback audiences connected the incorrect foot.” | The Point
- Monica Potts lays retired the governmental uselessness of the word “working class.” | The New Republic
- Livia Gershon explores the past of the saleswomen who took books doorway to door. | JSTOR Daily
- Napster is back, and it’s…developing AI teachers for classrooms? | Wired
- Film historiographer Karina Longworth looks astatine the lit of Hollywood. | Cultured
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