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- Tracy Rosenthal and Leonardo Vilchis examine how racism gutted public housing and built the American suburb. | Lit Hub Politics
- “To have any hope of undoing the densely woven braid between inequality, violence, and environmental harm, we need to understand its origins.” Why Earth’s survival depends on all of us. | Lit Hub Climate Change
- Oliver Radclyffe on how he didn’t know he was writing a trans memoir (until he did). | Lit Hub Memoir
- Who was Harriet Martineau? “A shocking number of advances in Anglo-American culture—everything from realist fiction to ecology to economic policy—would look different, or might not even exist, if she’d never put pen to paper.” | Lit Hub Craft
- On espionage, World War II, and why everything you think you know about spies is probably wrong. | Lit Hub History
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A daughter on her mother’s wish to die with dignity: “We are interdependent, both separate from and reliant upon others.” | Lit Hub Health
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- Jackie Wullschläger on the philosophy and practice of Impressionist master Claude Monet. | Lit Hub Art
- Jeff Schuhrke considers what a growing global labor movement needs to learn from Cold War-era failures. | Lit Hub History
- Read “To 2040,” a poem by Jorie Graham from the collection to 2040: “I pull it in, into my memory store. I have lost track.” | Lit Hub Poetry
- “My sister used to say, let us inhabit the moment of our love, not just now, but for our whole miserable, pitiable lives.” Read from Jesse Ball’s novel, The Repeat Room. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “In its ideal form, nightlife, clubbing, is about care: a set of stated and unstated hopes and aspirations about community and community-making.” On the Bushwick club scene and Emily Witt’s Health and Safety: A Breakdown. | The Nation
- “I had hoped that travel would make my world seem larger, but I felt like it had clipped my wings.” Mosab Abu Toha on the pain of traveling while Palestinian. | The New Yorker
- Ta-Nehisi Coates writes about reporting on bans of his own book, Between the World and Me. | Vanity Fair
- Edwin Frank on Gertrude Stein’s “Melanctha” and the American sentence. | The Paris Review
- Ukrainian poet, novelist, and musician Serhiy Zhadan still reads and plays shows to packed rooms, even as he’s fighting. | The New York Times
- As romance readers are changing, books are changing with them. | Washington Post
