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“They are closing out the space for a Palestinian voice.” An open letter to the Frankfurt Book Fair in support of Adania Shibli, from more than 350 writers, editors, and publishers. | Lit Hub
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“I don’t have time to write about the soul. / There are bodies to count.” Read a poem by Hala Alyan. | Lit Hub Poetry
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Here’s how you can help people in Gaza right now. | The Hub
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24 new books to keep you company. | The Hub
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Molly McGhee on unlearning the lessons of Dick Lit: “I had misread the authors I had surrounded myself with, I realized. Or maybe it was everyone else who misread them.” | Lit Hub Criticism
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Linguistic belonging: Ye Chun reflects on learning to write in English without disappearing. | Lit Hub
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Finding novelistic inspiration in museum wall labels. | Lit Hub Art
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John Lee Clark traces the nomenclatures applied to the DeafBlind community over the centuries, and the importance of letting people self-identify. | Lit Hub
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Sophie Gilbert ponders Wes Anderson’s Roald Dahl adaptations and what they tell viewers about both artists. | The Atlantic
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“The most difficult challenge in our lives is to face our contributions to the systems that reproduce inequality and consequential cycles of violence.” Sarah Schulman on the Hamas-Israel War. | New York Magazine
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that an AI bot in possession of the collected works of Jane Austen, must be in want of engagement on Instagram. | Futurism
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Florence Hazrat considers the exclamation point! | The Millions
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Canadian authors including Yann Martel, Alix Ohlin, and Heather O’Neill weigh in on their books being used to train AI. | The Walrus
Also on Lit Hub: The trap of fairytale victory endings in historical fiction • Read from the illustrated adaptation of Watership Down • Read from Tan Twan Eng’s latest novel, The House of Doors
