TODAY: In 1818, a 22-year-old John Keats returns from a walking tour of Scotland, showing early signs that tuberculosis would kill him.
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What the decline in global population signals about the future of humanity: “Our times, when many people are alive, may prove to be unlike the entire rest of human history, past and future—if what is normal today persists.” | Lit Hub Science
“Despite being two hundred thousand square kilometers in size, the Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, has only one river: the Luni.” Read from Shobha Rao’s new novel, Indian Country. | Lit Hub Fiction
FROM THE AUTHOR OF GOLDEN CHILD
Love Forms is a heart-stirring novel about a mother’s love, in all its forms, as a woman searches for the daughter she gave up for adoption. Marian Keyes calls it “a quietly devastating masterpiece.”
“Disabled activists and scholars have put forward a model of ‘interdependency’ that emphasizes the reality that disabled people can and do need care from others—and holds that this is not such a bad thing.” Emily Lim Rogers considers recent books about the concept of “care.” | Public Books
