THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1912, E. R. Braithwaite is born. Maggie McKinley considers Joan Didion’s “future-oriented” nostalgia. | Lit Hub Criticism “I would never blame them. But being around Americans while this country is bombing mine is the last thing I can do.” Iranian writer Shohreh Laici on war and her mother….
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1817, Branwell Brontë is born. How is queer history “admitted to the historical record?” Demetris Papadimitropoulos on Tennessee Williams, Daniel Ciba’s Blue Roses and the ambiguity of proof. | Lit Hub Criticism “I don’t remember the exact content of the poem, but it was the first time I…
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The most severe and widespread June heatwave to hit Europe was made more brutal by the hot night-time temperatures and humidity, scientists said, and would have been virtually impossible without climate change. Daytime temperatures in…
The UK experienced its hottest June day on record on Thursday as temperatures hit 36.4C in Somerset. It marked the second time this week the record was broken after temperatures reached 36.1C in Hampshire on Wednesday. As extreme temperatures continue to grip the country, hundreds of schools have been forced to close early, while transport…
The temperature rose to 36.0C in Wisley, Surrey on Wednesday afternoon, setting a new June temperature record for the UK. Widely temperatures soared into the low to mid thirties elswhere across southern England and the Midlands. In advance of the stifling heat, the Met Office extended its red warning further south towards England’s south coast….
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THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1592, London theaters close for about 16 months due to an epidemic of bubonic plague. Why the elder Millennial experience of American life is a cycle of getting your hopes up and being let down. | Lit Hub Memoir Justin Ellis explores the labor history and racial…
TODAY: In 1914, Wyndham Lewis publishes the first issue of Blast, the short-lived literary magazine of the Vorticist movement in Britain. Emily Temple reads every summer reading list (so you don’t have to). | Lit Hub Reading Lists Why Robert W. Service’s “The Cremation of Sam McGee” is a good poem for bad dads. | Lit…
THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET TODAY: In 1752, Frances Burney is born. Round two of our Best of the Best Books Reading Challenge is underway with 50 of the greatest summer novels of all time! | Lit Hub Helen Bain follows in Sylvia Plath’s footsteps from Paris to Wellesley.| Lit Hub Biography Dave Eggers…
TODAY: In 1929, Anne frank is born, and in 1942 she gets a diary for her birthday. If literacy is in decline, why are bookstores booming? “Bookstores are filling a social void.” | Lit Hub Bookstores Korean poets and their translators pair poetry collections with K-pop albums. | Lit Hub On Translation Did you know…
