TODAY: In 1940, Charles Lindbergh wins the presidency over Franklin Delano Roosevelt in Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America.
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“I could only make good art if I made bad art, too, and so I began making bad art an integral part of my creative practice.” In praise of making bad art. | Lit Hub Craft
“You’re not a satirist. It’s just not your mode of processing the world, and it’s not serving the story.” How Brian Schaefer learned to embrace idealism. | Lit Hub Craft
What we need is a politics of solidarity with children, one that sees children as comrades in our struggle for a better future... Anne Boyer calls Madeline Lane-McKinley’s Solidarity With Children “an indispensable guide for anyone committed to transforming the world.”
“Vitalism stands, or falls, on its relationship to liberal egalitarianism, sexual difference, and one’s stance on HR departments.” Tara Isabella Burton considers the rise of vitalism. | The Hedgehog Review
“I am constantly using rationalistic jargon to talk about the least rational ideas: a poem’s dumb desires, its fugitive wants.” Maggie Millner on the mechanics of poetry scholarship. | Granta
Celebrate Toni Morrison’s legacy this November with four stunning new repackages—Beloved, The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Sula—each featuring an illuminating new introduction by a celebrated contemporary writer.
Lyndal Roper has been announced as the 2025 winner of the USD$75,000 Cundill History Prize for her “sensational” story of the 16th century uprising that shook Europe to its core, Summer of Fire and Blood: The German Peasants' War (John Murray Press / Basic Books).
