"Folktales are powerful because they are how many of us first experience stories." Gina Chung on drawing inspiration from Korean folktales. | Lit Hub Criticism On the clear and present danger of far-right extremism in America: "Irony of ir…  | Lit Hub Daily March 13 | TODAY: In 1891, Henrik Ibsen's play Ghosts opens in London for a single private performance. - "Folktales are powerful because they are how many of us first experience stories." Gina Chung on drawing inspiration from Korean folktales. | Lit Hub Criticism
- On the clear and present danger of far-right extremism in America: "Irony of ironies, the people who took me the most seriously were those same dead-enders, and I certainly wasn't changing any of their minds." | Lit Hub Politics
- What does it mean to invite surprise into your writing? Barrie Jean Borich explores the art of bafflement. | Lit Hub Craft
- Emily Raboteau considers the intersections of climate change and gentrification on human and non-human habitats. | Lit Hub Photography
- "The truth is, the majority of biographies are written by men, about men, for men." Katie Gee Salisbury examine's at Anna May Wong's life and cinematic career through the eyes of a woman. | Lit Hub Biography
- On the forgotten women writers of the Renaissance: "Mary Sidney, Aemilia Lanyer, Elizabeth Cary, and Anne Clifford were among a small but not insignificant group of Shakespeare's contemporaries who did what Woolf deemed impossible..." | Lit Hub History
- "The Palm Aire is, it turns out, a golf clubhouse and when we arrive (almost an hour late) there is a bagpiper piping outside, with all the paraphernalia: kilt, sporran, socks, aslant balmoral hat." Rudi Zygadlo searches for Robert Burns in the most unexpected of places: Sarasota, Florida. | Lit Hub Travel
- "Once you smell how brilliant he was, you feel it's legitimate to show the roiling squalor of his demise." Dan Sheehan interviews Tom Hollander on playing Truman Capote. | Lit Hub TV
- "She hadn't cried. She vomited after it was clear that the red-truck kid was not going to come back to life." Read from Rita Bullwinkel's new novel, Headshot. | Lit Hub Fiction
- "When you get a story from your ancestors, it's usually been translated. Not literally, from language to language—it's been passed down to people, like a game of telephone." Katya Apekina talks writing and intergenerational trauma. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- On the political concept of the underground: "Subterranean spaces offered up especially powerful resources for 19th-century Black authors, who made use of undergrounds to 'imagine Black life within unfreedom.'" | Public Books
- Posthumous publishing is a complex (and ethically dubious) affair. Is it always a betrayal? What happens when it isn't? | Esquire
- "Sometimes we can be nostalgic for things that never happened." Victoria Chan on the bittersweetness of nostalgia and the act of yearning. | The Walrus
- Remembering and mourning Alexey Navalny: "Yet no other figure in the liberal opposition has managed to inspire hope quite as powerfully as Navalny." | New York Review of Books
- Authors are suing Nvidia over AI training data. What could this mean for the future of literature and copyright law? | Ars Technica
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