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Eight villains remain as our Best Villains in Literature bracket hits the quarterfinals! Who will win? Keep voting to find out. | Lit Hub 

Karen Russell on “what truths come to light, what injustices and possibilities are laid bare” in the wake of a natural disaster. | Lit Hub In Conversation

“To be a hypochondriac is to assign the most important place in one’s life to something that no one else believes is real.” Will Rees on Franz Kafka’s health anxiety and a writer’s calling.  | Lit Hub Biography

“Brevity is the soul of politeness. In an industry that traffics in words, it can feel like rudeness.” Sloane Crosley on the art of saying “no.” | Lit Hub Humor

How to incorporate time travel into a writing process (or rewriting a novel after a decade of distance). | Lit Hub Craft

Helen Nde recommends books for understanding African folklore by Isidore Okpewho, Ruth Finnegan, Ibrahim Al-Koni, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

“The pretty stuff you’re made of / Will crack and crease and dry.” Read two (very mean!) poems by Dorothy Parker. | Lit Hub Poetry

Christopher Summerfield on the practical and ethical ramifications of AI weapons. | Lit Hub Technology

“The next curve is a tricky one. Too much pressure on the gas and the van could tip.” Read from Jared Lemus’s story collection, Guatemalan Rhapsody. | Lit Hub Fiction

Select from workshops in Poetry, Fiction, or Creative Nonfiction. Write and share your work under the guidance of highly accomplished faculty at The American University of Paris. Enjoy Parisian life while becoming steeped in its great literary legacy.

Remember—words are your weapons, they’re your tools, your currency. Natasha Brown’s Universality is a twisty, slippery descent into the rhetoric of power, from one of the most thrilling new voices in literature.

Delia Cai talks to Japanese Breakfast frontwoman and Crying in H Mart author Michelle Zauner about success, pressure, and trying not to read YouTube comments. | Vulture

“Like many people, I imagined that smugglers were rich, were bad, that everybody hates them: all these really simplistic kinds of things.” Jason De León on telling the stories of human smugglers. | Public Books

Robert Pollins examines Noam Chomsky’s contributions to climate justice. | Jacobin

“Universities must recognize how anti-Palestinian racism threatens all of us.” Dima Khalidi considers the far-reaching implications of Mahmoun Khalil’s abduction. | The Nation

Isabella Hammad on reading Etel Adnan amid a genocide. | The Yale Review

Kelly Marie Coyne revisits Toni Morrison’s Sula and considers autonomy, female friendship, and “outlaw women.” | Los Angeles Review of Books

Guided by award-winning instructors, the Orion Environmental Writers' Workshop provides an intimate space to connect with writers, artists, and editors, spark creativity, and renew, illuminate, and deepen your relationship with place.

The author of The Island at the Center of the World offers up a thrilling narrative of how New York—that brash, bold, archetypal city—came to be.

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