Susanna Kaysen revisits Girl, Interrupted 30 years later: “Back then, this was not a topic for discussion, rather something to be kept secret.” | Lit Hub Memoir
“What my grandmothers gave me, I now offer to you.” Kwame Alexander considers the legacies of love passed down through food… and shares a family recipe for 7 Up Pound Cake. | Lit Hub Food
Brooke Kroeger traces the rise of journalism’s star female reporters, from Molly Ivins to Joan Didion. | Lit Hub History
“Who am I going to laugh with now?” Hannah Lillith Assadi on Brian Cox, Logan Roy, and her father. | Lit Hub Memoir
Javier Marías’s Tomás Nevinson, Brandon Taylor’s The Late Americans, and Rachel Louise Snyder’s Women We Buried, Women We Burned all feature among the Best Reviewed Books of the Week. | Book Marks
The most anticipated crime fiction of the summer. | CrimeReads
Dwight Garner on the late Martin Amis. | New York Times
A close reading of John Berryman’s “Dream Song 29” to predict the end of Succession. | Vanity Fair
Salman Rushdie at the PEN America gala: “Violence must not deter us.” | The Guardian
Rachel Aviv writes about the tortured bond between Alice Sebold and Anthony Broadwater, the man wrongfully imprisoned for her rape. | The New Yorker
Jacki Lyden on the beauty and heartbreak of public radio. | Arrowsmith Press
On Henry James’s only political novel, 1886’s The Princess Casamassima—and the warning it holds for contemporary America. | The Atlantic
The majority of book challenges filed across the United States in 2021 and 2022 were done so by just 11 people, who seem to have a problem with “sex” and LGBTQ people. | Washington Post
“T(Sakakawea)ish was not a Shoshoni. She was a Hidatsa.” What white history got wrong about Sacagawea. | New York Review of Books
Are these the 100 greatest children’s books of all time? | BBC
Rapid-fire book recs from Brandon Taylor. | ELLE
Carmen Maria Machado on why Hollywood can’t get enough of cannibalism stories. | Bon Appetit
2023 is a big year for new short story collections from Asian and Asian diaspora writers. | Book Riot
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak likes sexy horse books and there’s nothing wrong with that. | The Hub
Today’s literary mystery: Who was behind the classic 1976 cover for Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time? | Tor
On the historical claim that there were actually two American Constitutions, one pro-slavery, the other abolitionist. | NY Review of Books
