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June 25, 2025

TODAY: In 1984, Michel Foucault dies.

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“At the heart of its culinary philosophy is the belief that people are within and part of their ecosystem, not separate from it.” On amaranth and the history and legacy of Pueblo cuisine in New Mexico. | Lit Hub Food

How incorporating multiple perspectives to explore shared memory can craft a complex family story. | Lit Hub Craft

Sarah Boon examines the necessity of field research and the 19th-century women who fed her passion for the natural world. | Lit Hub Nature

Marc Raimondi on Terry Bollea, aka Hulk Hogan, and the McDonalds-esque appeal of professional wrestling in America. | Lit Hub Sports

Ellen O’Connell Whittet looks at the long (and many) lives of Marina Abramović’s creative career. | Lit Hub Art

David Litt considers the challenges and joys of learning to surf as an adult: “While flailing in pursuit of whitewater may not have been fun, it was something different to think about.” | Lit Hub Memoir

“Emerson had kissed his wife when he came in, which was the right thing to do.” Read from Hal Ebbott’s new novel, Among Friends. | Lit Hub Fiction

BRAVING THE WORLD IN SEARCH OF HIMSELF

At the dawn of the Spanish Civil War he’s willing to risk it all for love and friendship. From author Simon Tolkien comes a page-turning historical saga about a young man coming of age and crossing continents in search of an identity—and a cause—in a time of tyranny and upheaval.

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IF THE BIG CHILL WERE A PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER

When a group of old college friends reunites for a summer vacation at a beach house in coastal Massachusetts, a sudden disappearance and the arrival of a seductive stranger threaten to unearth the darkest secrets of their relationships. Read Dwyer Murphy’s The House on Buzzards Bay.

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Anthony Madrid considers the perils of writing ghazals in English. | The Paris Review

“Utopianism has never been the fatal flaw of the left. What truly undermines its capacity for political realism is this belief in the saving power of catastrophe.” Corey Robin on the murky idea of “late capitalism.” | New Left Review

What Anthropic’s AI copyright case means for books. | Wired

If you’re tired of hearing about writing and AI, try reading an art and literature zine hosted on the ancient (but still functional) protocol Telnet. | 404 Media

“It is true that Airless Spaces is closer to a diary than a polemic or a war plan, that Firestone’s politics surface explicitly only in minor swells.” Emmeline Clein on Shulamith Firestone. | Los Angeles Review of Books

Julie Stone Peters considers Donald Trump, the law, and a bad courtroom movie. | Public Books

A SPELLBINDING NOVEL OF SUSPENSE