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You know it when you see it: the 25 most iconic book covers in history. | Lit Hub

“An institution based on social control instead of social well-being is an institution that needs to be abolished.” Colin Kaepernick on abolition and Black liberation. | Lit Hub Politics

Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah has won the Nobel Prize. | The Hub

“I suspect that I was informed aesthetically and ethically by Sesame Street more than any other thing.” Joshua Ferris takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire. | Lit Hub

From The Gay Agenda to the Capitol insurrection, Stephanie Grant unpacks the uses and abuses of disgust. | Lit Hub

The marriage experiment: Kimberly Harrington breaks down lifelong partnership into 16 simple (and excruciating) steps. | Lit Hub

Create a charged setting, use direct (not plain) language, and more advice for writing a good fight scene. | Lit Hub Craft

Into the Parisian studio with Enki Bilal, whose epic sci-fi comics “offer a new way of describing dystopia and metamorphosis.” | Lit Hub Comics

Miles Marshall Lewis considers Kendrick Lamar’s 2016 Grammy’s performance, “a prime example of why he wears the mantle of Tupac Shakur.” | Lit Hub Music

How Ralph Waldo Emerson helped transform the word “landscape,” and with it, Americans’ relationship to nature. | Lit Hub Nature

Liana Fink on David Sedaris, Cree LeFavour on Claire Vaye Watkins, Michele Filgate on Miriam Toews, and more of the Reviews You Need To Read This Week. | Book Marks

Georgina Cross recommends ten books in which wealthy families “discover, to their grave disappointment, that money and stature might not be able to buy everything.” | CrimeReads

WATCH: Jen Winston and Adam J. Kurtz talk queer existential dread • Randall Kennedy on the realities of race in America. | Lit Hub Virtual Book Channel

On the connection between baking and the labor of publishing a book. | Catapult

Looking back at a 1950s newsletter dedicated to gay literature, which amassed a mailing list in the thousands despite threats from the FBI. | The New Yorker

Are coffee table books worth it? Design pros weigh in. | The Wall Street Journal

Amitava Kumar in favor of using pictures in books for adults. | The Atlantic

“You have a right to walk out that door. I have an obligation to say what I believe. This is how we get along.” A conversation with Nikki Giovanni. | Public Books

On the “literary Wild West” of Homeric biography. | Lapham’s Quarterly

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson talks about the inspiration behind the stories in My Monticello. | Los Angeles Times

Téa Obreht talks about Mrs. Danvers, Rebecca’s lesbian

feminist hero, on Open Form. 

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Dave Eggers on Amazon as cataclysm and data’s creep

into storytelling, on The Maris Review. 

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Kaitlyn Greenidge discusses the publishing industry’s shallow relationship with Black literature, on Book Dreams. 

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José Vadi on mapping a changing California, on Otherppl. 

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Evan Osnos on collective intervention and moments of social transition, on Just the Right Book.

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Elizabeth Wetmore and Kathryn Nuernberger consider SB8, the history of abortion, and Roe v. Wade in danger, on Fiction/Non/Fiction.

It’s a cold case like no other. In 1888, five women were brutally murdered in a London slum—attacks so violent the killer earned himself a nickname: Jack the Ripper. But everything you think you know about Jack and those women is wrong.

On the Bad Women podcast, historian Hallie Rubenhold uncovers the real lives of Jack’s victims, revealing discrimination that put them in Jack's path—misogyny women still face today. The show challenges established theories about the murders… causing many supposed Ripper experts to see red.

Listen to Bad Women at https://link.chtbl.com/lithubbadwomen.

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