THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET
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- Zachary Fletcher interviews former New York Times romance columnist Olivia Waite about being fired and the current state of romance criticism. | Lit Hub In Conversation
- Are we living in a simulation? Is AI a philosophical zombie? Catherine Heymans considers these and other questions of the multiverse. | Lit Hub Science
- Stuart Gibbs recommends books about World War II for young readers, including titles by Alan Gratz, Jennifer Nielsen, and Gordan Korman. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- The competition is heating up! Voting is open in the third round of our bracket to determine the Best Literary TV Adaptation of All Time. | Lit Hub
- Nancy Isenberg chronicles the history of American nepo babies: “Do they really work twice as hard? The Camelot magic had sprinkled fairy dust over the eyes of journalists.” | Lit Hub History
- On the beauty and liminality of writing from flyover country. | Lit Hub Craft
- Meet Hanna Diab, the forgotten Syrian adventurer behind Aladdin and other stories. | Lit Hub History
- David Conrad-Pérez recommends books about the birth of modern New York by Mike Wallace, James Baldwin, Eric Foner and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
- “There’s nothing mysterious about my sister. She wasn’t hard to find. It’s just I’d never tried.” Read from Siân Hughes’s new novel, No Such Thing as Monday. | Lit Hub Fiction
- “I don’t believe that relentlessly collecting that data, documenting that data, publishing the data is sufficient to overturn the systems that we have.” Mona Chalabi talks to Naomi Elias about income inequality and the power—and limitations—of numbers. | The Nation
- How peer production (aka volunteer work) built the internet. | The MIT Press Review
- On loss, literature and the necessity of the humanities. | JSTOR Daily
- Noelle Mateer goes to France’s biggest festival celebrating American literature. | The Paris Review
- Rebecca Liu shares lessons learned while judging this year’s Booker Prize. | The Guardian
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