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“I’m not so keen on the damp grey days, I admit. So it’s no hardship to stay at my desk.” Val McDermid’s ode towriting in the winter. | Lit HubCraft
Rebecca Hall reflects onNegro Liberation, her father’s groundbreaking book: “Being a child of a famous communist father, who had me when he was older than I am now, is a strange thing.” | Lit Hub Memoir
“For Coretta, the daily bombings were not distant policy—they were personal.” On the progressive politicsof Coretta Scott King. | Lit HubBiography
“The conditions of the part-time job weren’t bad. They just weren’t the sort of conditions you came across every day.” Read fromEmi Yagi's novelWhen the Museum Is Closed, translated by Yuki Tejima. | Lit HubFiction
THE MURDER GAME
From Agatha Christie to whodunits, crosswords, jigsaws, and Cluedo, John Curran’s The Murder Game unravels the timeless charm of Golden Age detective fiction, shedding light on why readers remain captivated by its puzzles and intrigue.
J.M. Berger explainsthe construction of extremism in regards to ICE: “When this normal instinct congeals into an excessive attachment to a specific identity and a mandate to harm people who don’t share that identity, it becomes extremism.” | The MIT Press Reader
Tessa Hulls, the only graphic novelist other than Art Spiegelman to win a Pulitzer,discussesFeeding Ghosts(and why she won’t be writing another book). | The Comics Journal
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