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“Grief is not a problem to be solved, but an essential human passage to be honored.” Nancy Cobb on her book,In Lieu of Flowers, andthe importance of naturalizing grief. | Lit HubMemoir
“And on that day he walked the dirt road from the patch past the colliery toward the entrance of the shaft, the only light visible coming from the breaker with its multitude of filament bulbs inside and outside and along each apparatus...” Read fromAndrew Krivak’s new novel,Mule Boy. | Lit HubFiction
A BOOK LOVERS’ DREAM WEEKEND.
Be part of an unforgettable long weekend dedicated to the power of story. Join us May 15-17 in Santa Fe as we bring together influential authors, thinkers, and passionate readers and celebrate our shared love of language and ideas.
“Morrison writes about suffering and survival, always, but with the insistence that suffering does not ennoble and survival is not a clean thing. One might come through but not necessarilyintact.”Parul Sehgal on Toni Morrison’s novels of the unthinkable. | The New York Times Magazine
Carlos Manuel Alvarez contemplates exile: “Whatever I said about Cuba in the future, it would come from the conscience of someone who no longer lived there.” (Translated by Will Noah.) | Equator
Jynne Dillingremembers Michael Silverblatt: “The miracle of holding a galaxy of details in one single brain, to see meaning, entanglement, and instruction knitted across that vastness—it’s one way to explain the singularity of Michael Silverblatt…” | n+1
“This isn’t because screens are inherently attention-destroying. It’s because the dominant platforms have been deliberately engineered to fragment attention in service of advertising revenue.”How capitalism engineeredthe reading crisis. | Aeon
THE UNCONSCIOUS: A CULTURAL HISTORY
A highly original cultural history of the unconscious, by Antonio Melechi.
“A fascinating tour of our sometimes futile and always contested efforts to demystify the unconscious—from ancient Greece to modern neuroscience, via Nietzsche, Freud, and more.”
