How it feels when one of your poems is literally going to the Moon. | Lit Hub Nature

“Put simply, people don’t buy books. They buy holograms, and they hope the book matches up.” What happens when the idea of a book supersedes the book itself in the eyes of readers. | Lit Hub Criticism

Steven W. Thrasher on why we must all fight for academic freedom in the face of institutional cowardice and government overreach. | Lit Hub Politics

Don’t look now but all the raccoons have gentrified Toronto. | Lit Hub Nature

The magical case for following your literary dreams. | Lit Hub Craft

Heather Hansman finds herself in the stories of America’s unsung outdoorswomen. | Lit Hub Biography

Jason Dove Mark explores the dangers of forgetting the environmental history of our planet. | Lit Hub Science

“He had promised himself he wouldn’t talk about it and now here he was, talking about it.” Read from Jem Calder’s new novel, I Want You to Be Happy. | Lit Hub Fiction

Hassan Abo Qamar on watching the World Cup in Gaza: “For 90 minutes, the World Cup gives us something the genocide has tried to take away: a sense of community, a sense of normality, and a moment of pure celebration.” | The Nation

Ali Rıza Taşkale considers Silicon Valley’s misuses of science fiction. | Aeon

Livia Gershon explores the history of “sewer socialism.” | JSTOR Daily

“Tokens… acquire functional value relationally, through learned patterns of difference and contextual association, rather than through any intrinsic bond between word and thing.” What semiotics has to do with the development of LLMs. | Los Angeles Review of Books

On Andres Serrano, Robert Mapplethorpe, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the politics of art and culture wars. | The New Yorker