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• How newspapers helped democratize knowledge (because reading isn’t just for the rich). | Lit Hub Politics
• The winner of The Caine Prize has been accused of AI-generating his short story, but do AI detection programs like Pangram offer definitive proof of AI use? James Folta considers AI, racism, and the limits of technology. | Lit Hub Technology
• Oksana Lutsyshyna recommends essential Ukrainian literature by Artur Dron, Andriy Lyubka, and Lena Lyagushonkova. | Lit Hub Reading Lists
• What Paul Bochner learned about himself after forming a relationship with a rescue racoon. | Lit Hub Memoir
• Why is rent so high? You can probably blame the algorithms. | Lit Hub Politics
• On the medieval European witch hunts that targeted and punished nonconformist women. | Lit Hub History
• “There are few in American history who stand taller.” Al Sharpton remembers his mentor, Jesse Jackson. | Lit Hub Biography
• The case against painting your walls white. | Lit Hub Design
• “The Author is facing the sea, his cheeks orange from the lowering sun. There’s Maja, walking towards him, from behind, tentative, yet her right arm is reaching for him, reaching around him.” Read from Denise Rose Hansen’s novel, Blue Sunset. | Lit Hub Fiction
• “I have waited for much of my adult life for (straight) men to start a liberation movement akin to feminism, one that would publicly reject the conformity, repression, and aggression that define [this] kind of masculinity.” Rebecca Solnit enters the Manosphere. | The Nation
• Most readers can’t reliably spot AI writing, and, Colin Horgan argues, their attempts to do so are “turning writer and reader into adversaries.” | The Walrus
• Megan Marz consider’s Richard Cooke’s new book on the history of Wikipedia and what it takes to write about the internet’s free encyclopedia. | The Baffler
• Snigdha Poonam investigates the wild (and profitable) world of literary AI scams. | The Dial
• BookTok’s latest obsession? Horny dubstep. | 404 Media

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