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How PayPal and Other Platforms Help Silence Alternative Media
2+ hour, 17+ min ago (907+ words) That's how Joe Lauria, the editor in chief of Consortium News, described PayPal's decision to cut off their account. Lauria has spent decades writing about international affairs, with the bulk of his career working as United Nations correspondent first for…...
Lisa Lee on Translating an Emotion
2+ hour, 25+ min ago (820+ words) This first appeared in Lit Hub's'Craft of Writing'newsletter'sign up here.Article continues after advertisement In her 2017 novel'The Idiot, Elif Batuman discusses the long-running controversy in linguistics over the so-called Sapir-Whorf hypothesis'the idea that different languages amount to different ways of…...
Literary Hub » Ruins, Child
2+ hour, 36+ min ago (1909+ words) The leg, a line. A close-up of a woman's leg. And the leg is seen because the woman is tying her shoes. She's fast, someone says in a low register, or it's just about the way her thighs push together…...
How Pregnancy and Childrearing Alter Our Perception of Time and Aging
19+ hour, 27+ min ago (141+ words) For your consideration, I present motherhood as a form of time travel. Pre, mid, post (of any variation). Beginning, middle, end (of any variation). Past, present, future (of any variation)these have become for me abstracts. This could be the…...
One great poem to read today: CD Wright’s “Floating Trees”
18+ hour, 33+ min ago (401+ words) One great poem to read today: CD Wright's "Floating Trees'Literary Hub One great poem to read today: CD Wright's "Floating Trees This April marks the 30th iteration of National Poetry Month, which was launched by the Academy of American Poets in…...
What Are the Routines of So-Called Super-Readers?
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (1071+ words) They read laps around the rest of us, wearing out their library cards and overflowing their bookshelves. They stack up hundreds of finished books each year. They are super-readers: people who read not just a lot, but an astonishing amount....
Dua Lipa’s literary empire is expanding. (Again.)
19+ hour, 44+ min ago (434+ words) You may know her as a Grammy winning pop star, best at baiting hooks that keep Barbie in a trance. But these days you're just as likely to know Dua Lipa for her second job: bookfluencer. The British impresario founded…...
Dear Harlequin: Nobody Asked For Your Weird, New AI Video “Microdramas”
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (543+ words) Dear Harlequin: Nobody Asked For Your Weird, New AI Video "Microdramas'Literary Hub Dear Harlequin: Nobody Asked For Your Weird, New AI Video "Microdramas Maris Kreizman Wonders What the Hell We're Even Doing Here On Monday Harlequin announced that it would…...
If you read cursive, the Newberry has a job for you.
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (421+ words) The Newberry Library in Chicago is scouting transcribers to demystify its handwritten collection. As Dan Kelly wrote in yesterday's Chicago, the archive's hunt for "living Rosetta stones" first kicked off in 2013, when the Newberry launched a campaign to transcribe all…...
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
1+ day, 2+ hour ago (528+ words) Our favorite criticism of the week includes Daniel Felsenthal on Wayne Koestenbaum's My Lover, the Rabbi, Becca Rothfeld on Arthur C. Brooks' The Meaning of Your Life, Robert Rubsam on Charlotte Wood's The Natural Way of Things, Daniel Mendelsohn on Yann…...