“If you were to read for 16 hours a day at 300 words per minute, you could keep up with a world containing an average population of 100,000 living Harper Lees.” Randall Munroe answers a pressing question: Was it ever possible for one person to read every book ever written (in English)? | Lit Hub History
Elaine Fox explores the science of intuition. | Lit Hub Science
“Even the writer/mother with the best-furnished ego has to stop from time to time to pick up Lego pieces from the floor.” Begoña Gómez Urzaiz on Muriel Spark and the competing demands of career and childcare. | Lit Hub Memoir
Jhumpa Lahiri considers “the fruit of the union” between author and translator, as illustrated by Michael F. Moore’s translation of Alessandro Manzoni’s The Betrothed. | Lit Hub On Translation
Ian McEwan’s Lessons, Robert Harris’ Acts of Oblivion, Kate Beaton’s Ducks, and Ling Ma’s Bliss Montage all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
How to get away with murder… in the Regency Era. | CrimeReads
What can parents do when schools ban books in their child’s district? | The Washington Post
“Through his many periods of innovation, Godard never forgot that in art, as in life, beauty persuades.” Blair McClendon on Jean-Luc Godard. | n+1
“The impulse to create cheap thrills is timeless.” Laurence Senelik considers the art of Shakespearean death. | Lapham’s Quarterly
“Queer and trans writers are among our most vital culture creators across every segment of the arts.” An interview with Samiya Bashir, Lambda Literary’s new executive director. | Publishers Weekly
“We should be challenging each other.” Alex Breland talks about creating a book club and discussion space for Black men. | The Chicago Tribune
“The deaths in these books are intoxicating because they are never final.” Leslie Jamison on the enduring appeal of Choose Your Own Adventure books. | The New Yorker
Darren Byler, a translator of the Uyghur-language novel The Backstreets, reflects on his collaboration and friendship with his co-translator, who is presumed to be in a reeducation camp in Xinjiang. | Words Without Borders
“The mysteries that capture your attention are always shifting, and while you’re not looking, they transform into something else altogether.” Dwyer Murphy on New York noir, cinematic influences, and humor in crime fiction. | LARB
Writers including Abdulrazak Gurnah and Margaret Atwood will appear alongside Ukrainian authors at Lviv BookForum, streaming next month on a screen near you. | The Guardian
“I feel the most ridiculous thing is certainty.” Yiyun Li talks to Alexandra Kleeman about dogma and grief. | The New York Times
“She often represented people who illustrated the flip side … it’s a very classic ‘Ruthian,’ as I call it, approach.” Nina Totenberg on her friendship with Ruth Bader Ginsburg. | NPR
Bruna Dantas Lobato on Ling Ma’s Bliss Montage: “Chinese American women hope for a similar Happy Interlude, if not a happy ending.” | Astra Magazine
“One needs to have heroes who live under similar societal constraints in order to know how to break free of them.” Heather O’Neill on the life and enduring work of Mavis Gallant. | The Walrus
Heather Platt delves into what community cookbooks show about the history of Los Angeles. | Los Angeles Times
Ibram X. Kendi talks about why kids need to read diverse stories and books about history. | Reader’s Digest
