“Solidarity can never be pristine.” Arundhati Roy on free speech, failing democracy, and an India approaching gridlock. | Lit Hub Politics
Alissa Quart on the myths of Little House on the Prairie: “I couldn’t help but recognize that though they were seemingly harmless, these novels and that hit show were a crucial example of the way the bootstrapping ideology wormed its way into the minds of children.” | Lit Hub Criticism
What happens to your brain when you look at art? | Lit Hub Science
Just an innocent little list that will make no one mad: The Lit Hub staff argues for 13 adaptations better than the books they’re based on. | Lit Hub Film & TV
Catherine Lacey’s Biography of X, Matthew Desmond’s Poverty, by America, and Sebastian Barry’s Old God’s Time all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
CrimeReads looks back at the 50th anniversary of a groundbreaking time in crime cinema: 1973. | CrimeReads
“Very few people actually want their money to disappear every month.” In which Sally Rooney quietly eviscerates the landlord class. | Irish Times
“Close reading may be easy to measure, but it’s not the way to get kids to fall in love with storytelling.” Katherine Marsh examines why a generation of readers resents reading. | The Atlantic
How did mainstream and liberal press outlets become so enamored by J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy that they made him a senator? | If Books Could Kill
Rapid-fire book recs from Emily St. John Mandel. | ELLE
“Once you monetize your own authenticity, how do you keep it authentic?” So how do BookTok’ers make money? | Vox
Russian novelist Mikhail Shishkin has some ideas on “how to de-Putinize Russia.” | The Telegraph
“Good porn is no longer than twenty minutes long.” Polly Barton shares three “porn chats” she had with friends and acquaintances, after a lifetime of never talking about porn. | The Paris Review
Hua Hsu on how J. Crew made prep an aspirational identity. | The New Yorker
“Still Pictures makes explicit a muted moral provocation running through Malcolm’s books: that we are all essentially false Pharisees, serial violators of the Golden Rule.” Sam Adler-Bell on Janet Malcolm’s turn to memoir. | The New Republic
Garth Greenwell in praise of filth: “The problem is that, in much of our discussion of art, we’ve made a mistake about what moral engagement is, and so what art’s role in it might be.” | The Yale Review
Some Proud Boys tried to crash New York attorney general Letitia James’s Drag Queen Story Hour, and it did not go well for them. | The Advocate
Donna Cameron on trying to learn about sex through… Steinbeck, and other essays about libido from the new issue of Dorothy Parker’s Ashes. | Dorothy Parker’s Ashes
The Marshall Project shares five things they’ve learned about prison book ban policies across the country. | The Marshall Project
“Kinda embarrassing to admit, but not one person came to my Atlanta tour event.” YA writer Jamar J. Perry experiences one of the less pleasant writerly rites of passage. | Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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