If meditation isn’t bringing you internal peace, Megan Pinto 🌘🌗🌖 thinks you should try a literary solution: poetry. lithub.com/building-anoth…

Josephine Quinn on Arabic translations of Ancient Greek texts and how “the point of translating foreign works was not to preserve them but to build on them.” lithub.com/how-arabic-tra…

“Brett had once been, like Jane, a writer of that most doomed of genres, literary fiction.” Read from Danzy Senna’s novel, Colored Television. lithub.com/colored-televi…

On the weird literary origins of Beetlejuice (Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice…). lithub.com/on-the-weird-l…

“I’ve never felt the presence of my own death so close to me,” writes Nahil Mohana while chronicling the toll of living with endless displacement and fear in Gaza. lithub.com/dont-look-back…

The 2024 Cundill History Prize celebrates books that “speak to major issues in the present day.” [Sponsored] cundillprize.com

Spammy political fundraising texts from fictional characters. lithub.com/spammy-politic…

Shannon Bowring asks, “How do you create a written world that honors the spirit of the place that inspired it while still allowing it to become its own universe?” lithub.com/letting-places…

Am I the asshole if I think memoirs these days are way too self-involved? Kristen Arnett answers this and other awkward literary questions. lithub.com/i-think-memoir…

It’s such a nice day to be in the literature fandom.

Here’s the shortlist for the 2024 Cundill History Prize. lithub.com/heres-the-shor…

“The men in her fiction are black holes who threaten to extinguish the light of any woman or child unlucky enough to get near them.” 5 book reviews you need to read this week. bookmarks.reviews/5-reviews-you-…

Harald Jähner considers how hyperinflation impacted gender relations in Weimar Germany. lithub.com/how-the-weimar…

.Sarah Viren talks to Alice Driver, who shares the stories of the immigrants who risked their lives at a meatpacking plant during COVID and discusses her book, Life and Death of the American Worker. lithub.com/american-night…

todays literary advice column for Literary Hub and guess what??? we DID find an asshole lithub.com/i-think-memoir…

Should we consider math a language? Ben Orlin considers new ways to think about—and have fun with—numbers, variables and equations. lithub.com/humanitys-stra…

Maureen Sun makes a case for embracing the fictiveness of fiction: “Even photographs aren’t unmediated documents.” lithub.com/a-word-about-a…

“What did he hope to accomplish, using his considerable power merely to knock me down? Why would a teacher ever speak to a student this way?” Michele Herman argues in favor of a more generous pedagogy. lithub.com/toward-a-more-…

Korean revolutionary Kim San on courage in the face of imperialism: “To rise above oppression is the glory of man; to submit is his shame.” lithub.com/korean-revolut…

“Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Willy-Brandt-Straße 1, 10557 Berlin—that was the address he wrote down…” Read from László Krasznahorkai’s novel, Herscht 07769. lithub.com/herscht-07769/