“Maybe we failed. But I believe the thing was worth attempting.” Marguerite Duras on writing the screenplay for Alain Resnais’ 1959 film, Hiroshima Mon Amour. | Lit Hub Film
“He was an all-the-time poet. It was a very nice pace.” Eileen Myles remembers their friend Bobby Byrd. | Lit Hub Poetry
Mutated crabs and zombie fish: How an unlucky Texas fisherman stumbled upon an environmental catastrophe. | Lit Hub Nature
Mike Rothschild considers how the madness of QAnon seeped into everyday life. | Lit Hub Politics
Kristine Langley Mahler on “the essayist’s destiny in the era of Google”—or, how to be a creep for art! | Lit Hub
To mark the prize’s tenth year, the British Academy has produced a free short anthology featuring contributions from seven previous winners and shortlisted writers. | The British Academy
As the DOJ v. PRH case wraps up, what did we learn? | The New York Times
“History, for Sorokin, is clay he manipulates into art, that he manipulates again and again. And again.” Arya Roshanian on the incendiary novels of Vladimir Sorokin. | Gawker
Michelle Zauner recommends a few of her favorite books. | Elle
Alyson McCabe considers the contradictions of crime novelist Patricia Highsmith. | NPR
“The power of these ballads of social unrest lies in their ability to transform individual tragedies into subtle yet clear indictments of unjust systems.” Brian Brodeur considers the midcentury ballad. | Los Angeles Review of Books
Robert Rubsam recommends the best books that explore various dimensions of obsession. | The Atlantic
