“A hypnagogic horror show.” Brian Dillon on migraines and scotoma, and trying to describe the geometry of blind spots. | Lit Hub Health
David Sexton considers Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go: “What this book is about is ordinary, normal and everyday, the knowledge that we are mortal, that our time is limited, death inescapable.” | Lit Hub Criticism
“I adopted Fuck This Shit as my motto during the Trump administration and find it applies to something new every day.” Abigail Thomas on getting a (superb) tattoo at 80. | Lit Hub Memoir
“White women are not just responsible for literally perpetuating the white race; white mothers are responsible for instilling white supremacist ideology in their children.” When QAnon meets momfluencer culture. | Lit Hub Politics
Dennis Lehane’s Small Mercies, Claire Dederer’s Monsters, Emily Henry’s Happy Place, and Lucinda Williams’s Don’t Tell Anybody the Secrets I Told You all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Weeks. | Book Marks
Edgar Award nominees weigh in on the state of crime fiction and offer writing advice. | CrimeReads
“Choose a few titles from the growing list of banned books.” Judy Blume shares her must-reads. | The New York Times
Why 1969’s Army of Shadows—based on the book by Joseph Kessel—is the best spy movie of all time. | Collider
Delia Owens’s journey to help poachers find a better line of work. | The Washington Post
Libraries devastated by the war in Ukraine are removing their Russian literature. | New York Review of Books
What the “hurried” writing on the waterlogged pages of Toni Morrison’s diaries reveal at Princeton’s archival exhibition | The Atlantic
The London Book Fair brought with it a new award for first-time novelists over 50. | The Guardian
Matthew Perry will be self-editing Keanu out of his memoir. | Rolling Stone
Abigail Covington on the new battleground over what kids and teens should be reading: the public library. | Esquire
“I like that [the concept of] backspace was originally just that—a space going backward.” On writing a history of the keyboard. | MIT Technology Review
“Cultural disintegration.” Readers react to Christian Lorentzen’s lament for Bookforum. | The Washington Post
“I’m like, This is literary shit going on here.” Read a profile of Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. | Vulture
Lyz Lenz goes behind the scenes of that Tucker Carlson profile. | Men Yell At Me
On Norman Mailer, whose letters “reveal a megalomaniacally ambitious young man congenitally prone to embellishment, unsound theorizing, and self-aggrandizing roleplay.” | The Baffler
Tajja Isen on the Internet Archive Lawsuit, book bans, library budget cutbacks, and labor issues at major publishing houses. | The Walrus
New fiction from Joyce Carol Oates. | The New Yorker
