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“I couldn’t believe my Muslim family had sent me to a Catholic school so I could stare at a statue of an almost naked man.”Huda Al-Marashi on writinga middle grade book about religion. | Lit HubReligion
“Regardless of distance, stories of invisible exile expose the spatial processes of exclusion, as well as the journeys undertaken in search of new belonging.” Onthe blind spots and biases oftraditional travel narratives. | Lit HubTravel
“I didn’t mourn for Vivienne Bianco. I didn’t know her. I knew how she died, though, because Randall Smiley told me the whole terrible story.” Read from Claire Oshetsky’s new novel,Evil Genius. | Lit HubFiction
SUMMER CREATIVE WRITING INSTITUTE
Let Paris inspire you this summer and come join us at AUP’s Summer Creative Writing Institute. With workshops on poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, students can work deeply on issues of craft, all while enjoying the City of Light.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Program in Public Understanding of Science and Technology supports authors whose writing explores science and technology for a general audience. Sloan salutes the authors whose books were published in 2025.
Nicholas Clairmont on the perils of optimization: “What you lose in optimizing morality is the same thing you lose in maximizing your airline-mile spend. In other words, nothing quantifiable—but precisely the chance to escape quantification.” | The Point
