The Best of the Literary Internet, Every Day
TODAY: In 1564, playwright and poet Christopher Marlowe was born.
- “It should be a modest request to ask that ‘left’ not mean supporters of authoritarian regimes.” Rebecca Solnit on the perennial divisions of the American left. | Lit Hub Politics
- Matthew Salesses on the “too-lateness” of climate change and the future of climate fiction. | Lit Hub Craft
- Laurence Ralph asks what justice looks like amid grief, systemic racism, and cycles of vengeance. | Lit Hub Politics
- What should indie booksellers read? Rachel Conrad recommends Josh Cook, Kristen Hogan, Jeff Deutsch, and more. | Lit Hub Bookstores
- Sharks are scary, but how exactly did humans become so afraid? Tim Flannery and Emma Flannery on this history of human-shark relations. | Lit Hub History
- “Since photography’s invention, black life has been presented as fraught, short, agonizingly filled with violence, and indifferent to intervention. Living death in a series of still frames, refusing complex humanity.” Kimberly Juanita Brown on the long, global tradition of the antiblack gaze. | Lit Hub Photography
- “Before running the bookshop, Yeongju had never considered whether she was suitable to be a bookseller.” Read from Hwang Bo-Reum’s new novel, Welcome to the Hyunam-dong Bookshop. | Lit Hub Fiction
- On Victor I. Cazares, the playwright on an HIV medication strike over the New York Theatre Workshop’s failure to call for a cease-fire in Gaza. | Vulture
- “The tension in Kafka between appetite and its fulfillment is a crucial aspect of the writer’s work.” Cooking and Kafka. | The Paris Review
- On Amelia Rosselli’s Sleep: “Rosselli’s strange English…reveals the Anglo-English canon as heterogeneous, as made up of geographic and linguistic crossings and histories of colonialism and imperialism.” | The Los Angeles Review of Books
- Simon Parkin tells the story of the bartender and part-time go-go dancer who rescued a masterpiece of working-class literature from obscurity. | The New Yorker
- Alissa Quart considers what is needed to save the U.S. media industry. | Jacobin
- R.O. Kwon writes about culture, shame, and why she hopes her parents won’t read her book. | The Guardian
