TODAY: In 1948, a private assembly of 50 major literary and artistic figures listens to a recording of Antonin Artaud's play Pour en Finir avec le Jugement de dieu, whose broadcast on French radio three days earlier had been prohibited.
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“If we’re willing to do the work and make changes, with aging comes wisdom, which allows us to move on and forge a future of our own choosing.” Senior women share their storiesof finding sexual freedom. | Lit HubMemoir
Adrian McKinty on the legacy ofone of Ireland’s great poets: “Seamus Heaney’s poems were read in classrooms where children were growing up with soldiers patrolling their streets.” | Lit HubCriticism
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What’s aMoby-Dickfan supposed to do? Gather in New Bedford, Massachusettsto read the book cover to cover. | Smithsonian Magazine
Krys Malcolm Belc onrebuilding a safe haven in Minnesota: “The job is simple, and involves a lot of standing around: volunteers are there to observe and to alert, as a protective measure so our neighbors’ kids and their parents don’t get kidnapped before they get to have their own golden post-drop off hour.” | Vogue
“Chromophobia is a pervasive ideology in Euro-American aesthetics—a fetishism even—that color is something that can be purged or imagined away.”On Pantone’s 2026 Color of the Year.| Los Angeles Review of Books
