THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

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• Saleem Haddad considers the craft lessons he learned from The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. | Lit Hub Craft
• “How do we keep writing when they are killing poets?” Sayantani DasGupta on creating in a time of dread. | Lit Hub Politics
• Darcey Steinke uncovers the history (and mystery) of migraines. | Lit Hub History
• The 22 new books out this week include titles by Lauren Groff, Michael Pollan, Tayari Jones, and more! | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• “I never thought it strange that as a child I was acutely aware of my papers.” Daisy Hernández examines the obsession with birthright citizenship in a post-9/11 America. | Lit Hub Memoir
• C. Riley Snorton and Darius Bost take lessons for Black queer activists from James Baldwin. | Lit Hub Biography
• Tayari Jones, author of Kin, on a book she hasn’t read (and other aspects of literary life). | Lit Hub In Conversation
• Ukrainian literature to help understand the ongoing war. | Lit Hub Politics
• How journalists Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles survived the chaos of 1930s Europe. | Lit Hub Biography
• “I don’t believe in hallowed ground, but I like that border control / doesn’t come here. It’s smelling season.” Read “Afternoon in the Cemetery,” a poem by Asa Drake from the collection Maybe the Body | Lit Hub Poetry
• “Andrea wants somebody to hug her hard, to squeeze her until every bone in her skeleton cracks.” Read from Rodrigo Hasbún’s novel The Invisible Years, translated by Lily Meyer. | Lit Hub Fiction
• “At great cost to themselves, these two editors dared to imagine a society where transgressive literature was a kind of portal to a freer future.” Stephanie Gorton on the history of Margaret Anderson’s groundbreaking magazine, The Little Review. | The New Republic
• What’s something people can do that AI can’t? Read PDFs. | The Verge
• Mosab Abu Toha considers the reality of ceasefire in Gaza: “It’s still a genocide ongoing.” | Democracy Now!
• Ana Woulfe interviews cartoonist Diane DiMassa about zines, tattooing, and the reissue of Hothead Paisan. | The Comics Journal
• On watching Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice, adapted from Donald E. Westlake’s novel The Ax, in a bad job market. | Los Angeles Review of Books
• James Davis Nicoll on the Canadian political thriller. | Reactor