“I usually just write my way into things.” Eric Olson profiles Sigrid Nunez on the release of her collection, It Will Come Back to You. | Lit Hub Craft

Angela Flournoy explores why Jean Said Makdisi’s Beirut Fragments “is less a memoir of survival than one of endurance.” | Lit Hub Criticism

The 20 new books out today include titles by Sigrid Nunez, Julie Buntin, and Pamela Colloff! | Lit Hub Reading Lists

“The distance between us could not be bridged—only recognized.” Elizabeth H. Winthrop remembers trying (and failing) to capture the lives of children in a Syrian detention camp. | Lit Hub Craft

Julie Buntin, Nathaniel Rich, Parini Shroff and other authors with new books answer our questions about writing craft and literary life. | Lit Hub In Conversation

Alicia Upano recommends books that center messy love by Crystal Hana Kim, Kamila Shamsie, Louise Kennedy, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

“He doesn’t remember me, but I know who he is.” Read from Julie Buntin’s new novel, Famous Men. | Lit Hub Fiction

“As we look upon burned flesh in Gaza, we are also seeing the rubble of this older version of Western empire. How best to splice the frame, to keep them both in mind, to keep looking?” Isabella Hammad on Gaza, ruin, and mourning. | Equator

David Cole considers the ruling against Florida’s Stop WOKE Act. | NYRB

Katie Kitamura tells Ann Tashi Slater about the importance of staring out the window. | Tricycle

Can your landlord evict you for having too many books? | The New York Times

Cartoonist Archie Bongiovanni on David Wojnarowicz, being in ICE-occupied Minneapolis, and Stone Butch Blues. | The Comics Journal

“The penthouse was a revolving door of riders, packers weighing out product, chef types fussing over candy molds, a dispatcher running logistics, and the mastermind of it all: the Boss, who I’ll call Ray.” Ariel Delgado Dixon remembers New York’s weed underground. | Dirt