TODAY: In 1954, The Fellowship of the Ring is published.

• Mathelinda Nabugodi explores the violent history of consumerism and colonial power in the 18th-century Caribbean and the human cost of producing sugar. | Lit Hub Food
• “Parenting often feels just beyond language. It’s very, very hard to describe the joy and the pain of it.” Four graphic memoirists discuss what cartooning motherhood means to them. | Lit Hub Art
• “if gender be a place / let me be everywhere but there.” Read “On Bilocation,” a poem by Remi Graves
  from the collection coal. | Lit Hub Poetry
• The 16 new books out today include titles by Rax King, Remi Graves, Amy Odell, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• Ed Park tells us about strudel from Zabar’s, reading 19th century horror, and his favorite books to gift. | Lit Hub In Conversation
• “I feel I should clarify about the nuns.” Read from Claire Adam’s novel, Love Forms. | Lit Hub Fiction
• Richard Brody makes the case for the traditional review, calling it “the most inherently progressive mode of arts writing.” | The New Yorker
• Nick Ripatrazone considers Marshall McLuhan’s prescient warning about the electronic world. | Slate
• Angelo Hernandez Sias on the “cursed” attempts at translating José Donoso’s The Obscene Bird of Night. | n+1 
• “Sally’s argument for sex and liquor is born not of an oppositional stance to the real world of war and politics, but of an indifference to it.” On Cabaret’s opposition to fascism (and aloofness towards it). | JSTOR Daily 
• Soraya Sebghati examines the canon of 21st-century Iranian cinema. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud discuss creative community building and encouraging the next generation of cartoonists: “The blank page to me is a pretty powerful symbol for what it’s like to be a kid who’s just beginning to create a rough draft for their own world.” | The Comics Journal

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