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• Emma Straub talks to Lily King about campus novels, time jumps, and her new book, Heart the Lover. | Lit Hub In Conversation
• “It’s in trying to reach beyond our limited selves that we are, I believe, most human.” Ilana Masad on the importance of research in navigating the fact and fiction of alien abduction stories. | Lit Hub Craft
• Kate Colby on drawing inspiration from Edward Hopper’s Cape Cod Morning and how poetry can save the human brain. | Lit Hub Art
• “A magnificent and lovable work—both page-turning and coolly visionary.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. | Book Marks
• What’s on Anton Hur’s TBR? Books by Han Kang, Irenosen Okojie, Siang Lu, and more! | Lit Hub Criticism
• Look inside the conceptually innovative spaces that house China’s new wave of bookstores. | Lit Hub Bookstores
• “Every day brings another tragedy or disaster, most of them manmade. I teeter between grief and disbelief, disbelief and grief.” Andrew Ervin considers two recent books that helped him make sense of AI, climate crisis, and American politics. | Lit Hub Politics
• “My father was a gardener. Now he’s a garden.” Read from Georgi Gospodinov’s novel Death and the Gardener, translated by Angela Rodel. | Lit Hub Fiction
• “There is no medical training for this, no papers to help guide me – nor should there be.” Mina Naguib documents the impossible choices of providing medical care in Gaza. | Granta
• Jessiva Olin explores the Amanda Knox media-industrial complex. | London Review of Books
• What does prestige even mean now when it comes to television? “Flash forward 10 years. The bubble has burst…” | Public Books
• Emma Cline considers travel stories, the romanticization of Italy, and Dinah Brooke’s Love Life of a Cheltenham Lady. | The Paris Review
• Joshua Finnell looks at the history and enduring value of student newspapers. | JSTOR Daily
• Is your chatbot manipulating you? Probably. | Wired

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