TODAY: In 1856, Ukrainian writer and poet Ivan Franko is born.
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“When I first arrived in Belfast, I saw both Palestinian and Israeli flags, but in different neighborhoods—the Palestinian ones in Irish nationalist areas, and Israeli ones in Protestant loyalist areas.” On Irish solidarity with Palestine. | Lit Hub Politics
As we face uncertain futures, the familiar is falling away. In this collection of 17 essays, Francis Weller helps us move together through the anxieties, difficulties, and sacred transitions of 21st-century life.
“There is a kind of Lockwood lens that brings into focus the improbable and hilariously bizarre features lurking in the midst of ordinary life, which a different writer might prefer to smooth over for realism’s sake.” Alexandra Schwartz profiles Patricia Lockwood. | The New Yorker
A memoir, a cultural history, and a call to action, Raymond Antrobus’s The Quiet Ear is a groundbreaking and much-needed examination of deafness in the world, from an award-winning young poet.
