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TODAY: In 1933, the first issue of Esquire, with stories by Ernest Hemingway and John Dos Passos, is published.
Parenthood in the end times: Emma Szewczak considers questions of procreation and responsibility in post-apocalypse narratives. | Lit Hub
An oasis in Cairo: Nadia Wassef reflects on owning Diwan, the first modern Egyptian bookstore of its kind. | Lit Hub Bookstores
“My heart still jumps when I see an older man in a billowing pinstripe suit, walking in the particular straight-legged fashion of a certain Somali gentleman.” Nadifa Mohamed on the unusual journey of her Uncle Kettle. | Lit Hub Freeman’s
Faiza Guene considers how Babar, “an elephant on two legs, who lives the life of a grand bourgeois,” represents the troubling history of assimilation and colonialism in France. | Lit Hub
“Obscurity has a knack for self-perpetuation.” Soledad Fox Maura on Constancia de la Mora and the plight of writers in exile. | Lit Hub Biography
Jen Winston on Bluets, bisexual representation in literature, and hating the classics. | Book Marks
On Keen On, Eric J. Johnson on how decisions are made, and Janine di Giovanni on the end of Christianity. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel
Antonio Michael Downing recommends books about migration and Caribbean identity in America. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
Stephen Fry reflects on the enduring appeal of Georgette Heyer. | The Guardian
“Sebald’s books suggest that we are powerless to remember adequately and powerless to forget.” Ben Lerner on a new biography of W.G. Sebald. | NYRB
Hilton Als discusses the role that art can play in rebuilding our fractured culture. | Interview
Phoebe Robinson talks about her new imprint, Tiny Reparations, and shaking up the publishing industry. | BookPage
Why has it taken so long for foreign-language characters and words to appear in English cookbooks? | The Counter
“I often find myself sitting down to write and then my ghosts arrive.” Ada Limón discusses writing through grief. | New England Review
Read a roundtable of authors with roots in Latin America on identity, the publishing world, and their new work. | Teen Vogue
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