TODAY: In 1891, Émile Zola’s stage adaption of Therese Raquin opens in London.
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“When white people talk about how we “made it,” we must also acknowledge that whiteness is an invisible and built-in advantage in how we achieve success.” Georgiann Davis explains why, despite similar experiences, she isn’t like JD Vance. | Lit Hub Memoir
“These young people, Gen Z Madagascar, will bring down entire paradigms of thought.” Raharimanana on Madagascar’s revolutions. | Lit Hub Politics
“Its impacts can be seen in multiple ways, from the miniscule size of reservations, often called ‘rancherias,’ to the number of tribes that were terminated in the 1950s and remain federally unrecognized.” On the past and present of violence against Indigenous people in California. | Lit Hub History
“If their case was being discussed on a national level, why wasn’t the same thing happening for all the other kidnapped children?” Read from Brenda Lozano’s novel Mothers, translated by Heather Cleary. | Lit Hub Fiction
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“Edward Said argued that because Austen lived in a slave-holding colonizing state, the ideology of empire inflected her worldview and fiction in ways that felt so natural as to slide under not only her notice but the notice of her readers.” On grappling with Mansfield Park. | Vox
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