What did Jodi Picoult decide she needed to commemorate turning 60, after a long and storied career (and 30 novels)? A tattoo, of course. | Lit Hub Craft

Steven W. Thrasher explores what we can learn about solidarity from Greg Tate’s recently reissued essay collection, Flyboy in the Buttermilk. | Lit Hub Criticism

Why does Walden resonate resonate with modern Chinese youth? “Walden is not popular in China because Chinese readers misunderstand Thoreau. It is popular because they understand him precisely.” | Lit Hub On Translation

“She finds mastery and after much practice can / unweave better than she ever wove, can unweave / her marriage back before she ever met the man.” New poetry by Rebecca Solnit. | Lit Hub Poetry

This week in literary history, Joseph Conrad becomes a British subject. | Lit Hub History

On the 80th anniversary of All the King’s Men, read the novel’s first New York Times review. | Book Marks

Ishmael Reed reflects on 50 years of Flight to Canada. | Lit Hub Craft

“It is reductive, potentially misleading diagnostically, and stigmatizing.” Daniel Lieberman examines the problem with BMI. | Lit Hub Health

“Listen: I am not ungrateful. I have always known I am the luckiest girl on earth.” Read from Malavika Kannan's new novel, Unprecedented Times. | Lit Hub Fiction

Rebecca Ford takes a deep dive on what went wrong on the Children of Blood and Bone set. | Vanity Fair

R.K. Hegelman on Fernando Pessoa, “an extreme and singular figure in a modern poetic tradition that views poems not just as texts, but as gnostic vehicles of self-annihilation and worldly renovation.” | Poetry

Ed Park on stamp collecting, maximum scrutiny, and his book, Three Tenses. | Broadcast

What’s happening over at The Onion’s InfoWars? Time to catch up. | Aftermath

Vikram Nijhawan laments the death of the good old fashioned con artist. | The Walrus