May 5 to 9, 2025 ‹Literary hub

Today: in 1950, beautiful Da Costa Greene dies.

• “More than that, the political art that seeks to speak at this moment tends to flatten the story in its attempt to be relevant.” Kevin Nguyen Don’t think we need timely novels. | Lighted hub Policy
• After 20 years, Kazuo Ishiguro reflects on the process of several decades behind Never let me go. | Lighted hub Craftsmanship
• “The deepest problem is not only costs. It is the identity of the literary world.” Benjamin Davis investigation the rise of the industrial submission complex. | Lighted hub News
• Why lawyers love Jane Austen: “This power to persuade, when he succeeds, often forms the central cog of the plots of Jane Austen.” | Lighted hub Critical
• Melina Moe considers Amanda Jones’ This librarian: the fight against the book Banning in AmericaWho tries to resolve both the public defamation of a librarian accused of voluntarily using the selection of books to pervert customers, and the broader question of how books must be selected (and disputed) in public collections “. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• In the AI ​​era, Joshua Rothman wonders: “On what part of our people thought will we be passengers rather than pilots?»| The New Yorker
• “What’s going on right now does not dictate what will happen tomorrow.” Angela Davis discusses Gaza, June Jordan and solidarity. | Democracy now!
• Sam Rosenfeld considers GovernmentPaean from Michael Lewis to the public service, in the Doge era. | The New Republic
• “My theory: Just as the Janée has lived a better life, they will die a better death – perhaps not free from existential distress but more equipped to meet.” Wendy Anne Lee thinks how Jane Austen is preparing for death. | Broadcast
• “I find his policy detestable but his voice irresistible.” Vinsonningham Media on His love / hatred relationship with The New York Post. | The New Yorker
• Gabriel McKee considers Mothman, UFO, and Weird and fascinating writing by Gray Barker. | MIT press reader
• Hari Kunzru on Well-being grifters, plots of the new age and “do your own” In times of fascism. | New York Review of Books
• “The dream of a relationship without incident by reality is the dream of a poem without incident by prose.” Andrea Long Chu on Ocean Vuong. | Vulture
• “Would we have a different vision of the translation, both more enlightening and more grateful, if we turned to the translators themselves?” Lawrence came on Why criticism can do better when they discuss the translation. | Public books
• Joe Sacco explains Why he returned to journalism of comics on Palestine: “I know the cities they bomb. I have friends there. I wrote on the history of these places in which I entered.” | The Comics Journal
• “No satirist has arrived at our dystopian moment better prepared than Carl Hiaaen. The bad guys from Hiaasen books have always been dangerous and mocking.” Dan Kois on “The Bard of Florida’s Fever Swamps”. | Slate
• Pete Wells considers the author of the revered kitchen book Marcella Hazan’s culinary heritage. | The New York Times
• Lara-Nour Walton reports The most recent mass arrest of the NYPD of student demonstrators in Columbia. | The nation
• Robert D Zarretsky explores the story of vanishing on great art. | Infinite time

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