TODAY: In 1898, Erich Maria Remarque is born.
- “She does not lack a sex. The clothes she wears are just one of the ways in which a woman choosing to play by her own rules can appear.” On the time George Sand got dapper. | Lit Hub Biography
- Why The Chicago Manual of Style should rethink its stance on the capitalization of “earth.”| Lit Hub Craft
- How Barry Windsor-Smith reinvented Marvel’s Wolverine through visual storytelling. | Lit Hub Art
- Ayşe Papatya Bucak explores the art of creating tension and surprise in a narrative (when your characters can’t do much). | Lit Hub Craft
- Jamison Firestone remembers being an American in the Soviet Union on the morning communism fell.| Lit Hub History
- Whether they’re running, flying, swimming, it’s cool when animals move fast. | Lit Hub Nature
- Why following other artists’ routines might help you recover from a creative slump. | Lit Hub Craft
- This week in literary history, Washington Irving’s “Rip Van Winkle” is published. | Lit Hub History
- By the time I fell off the map, I had good reasons to be gone.” Read from Ariel Delgado Dixon’s new novel, Sourland. | Lit Hub Fiction
- Maria Stepanova looks at Russia’s new generation of political exiles, translated by Sasha Dugdale. | Equator
- The Onion’s rebooted InfoWars is incoming. | The Verge
- Mona Sloane explores the similarities between the mean in culture and the mean in data as agentic AI systems become realities. | LARB
- Ariana Reines and Eileen Myles talk about poetic kinship and life after death. | Broadcast
- Some schools are hiring student content creators to make public education look cool. | The Nation
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