UnHerd
Poetry has lost its violence
10 min · · Censorious prudes miss the point of art · Shared by 7, including Lali
London Review of Books
James Butler · Infinite Artichoke: Italo Calvino’s Politics
18+ min · · Calvino’s essays are mercurial, and the pleasure of reading them derives from our intimacy with a mind that seems to... · Shared by 9, including Lali
The Guardian
The best books about the post-human Earth
3 min · · From Mary Shelley’s sole survivor to David Farrier’s survey of the traces we leave behind … author Cal Flyn on the most potent predictions · Shared by 240, including Lali, Thomas Power, Esther Schindler
mhpbooks.com
What Bolaño Read: his top 5, and his top 5,000 » MobyLives
2 min · · Over the next two weeks, we'll be hosting "What Bolaño Read," a series of posts by Tom McCartan charting the reading habits of Roberto Bolaño, the Chilean novelist, poet, and short story writer.… · Shared by 4, including Lali
The Guardian
Top 10 books about books
4 min · · From John Boyne to Julian Barnes and Carlos Ruiz Zafón, novelist Antoine Laurain chooses stories that are told inside stories · Shared by 158, including Lali, Katja Evertz
The New Yorker
What Our Biggest Best-Sellers Tell Us About a Nation’s Soul
6 min · · Reading America through more than two centuries of its favorite books. · Shared by 12, including Lali
The Washington Post
Want to borrow that e-book from the library? Sorry, Amazon won’t let you.
8 min · · Its monopoly is costing public libraries e-books and audiobooks from Mindy Kaling, Dean Koontz, Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Trevor Noah and a whole lot more. · Shared by 254, including Mathew Ingram, Bill McKibben, Joe Lencioni, Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis, Tah Wesley 22, Brad Brooks, Steve Faktor, Alfie Kohn, Alex Barrera, Cade Metz, Lali, Casey Newton, Adrian Roselli (no blue check) 🗯, Bethany Brookshire, Christopher Mims 🤌, sonia (may or may not be notable)
Literary Hub
The 50 Best Contemporary Novels Under 200 Pages
20+ min · · About a month ago, we published a list of 50 of the best contemporary novels over 500 pages, for those of you who suddenly have a lot of extra time on your hands. But for those of us who suddenly h… · Shared by 409, including Rick Powell, Christian Surchi, Tauno, rogerverhoeven, Lali, Henneke Duistermaat
The Guardian
Top 10 novels about unconventional families
4 min · · Trinidadian novelist Ingrid Persaud chooses books in which people attach themselves to ‘a something’ that might ease their loneliness · Shared by 72, including Lali, Matteo Furia, Gregor B. Rosenauer
The Paris Review
The Fabulous Forgotten Life of Vita Sackville-West
9 min · · How preposterous is it that Vita Sackville-West, the bestselling bisexual baroness who wrote over thirty-five books, should be remembered today merely as a smoocher of Virginia Woolf? · Shared by 26, including Kiki, Jennifer Ouellette, Lali
The New York Review of Books
Reading Sade in the Age of Epstein
13+ min · · Reading Sade in the age of #MeToo and Jeffrey Epstein is an uncanny experience, for his novels are also a blueprint for the world of the sexual predators of today. · Shared by 13, including Lali, Howard Getson
Brain Pickings
Favorite Books of 2019
· From the hidden universe beneath our feet to delight as a countercultural force of courage and resistance, by way of Patti Smith, Toni Morrison, and the Greek myths. · Shared by 78, including Stefan Diepolder, Charles Duhigg, Lali
NPR
NPR's Favorite Books Of 2020
· The Book Concierge is back with 350+ great reads, hand-picked by NPR staff and trusted critics. · Shared by 758, including Brian Stelter, wahalulu@fosstodon.org Marck Vaisman, Christopher D. Long, Max Fisher, nicolatwilley, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Jane, Tin House, Steve Silberman, Alyson Hurt, Bobby Flay, hakan, Cathy McPhillips, Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), DP, Karen K. Ho, Margaret Sullivan, @nonprofitorgs / Nonprofit Tech for Good, russell, Kevan Lee 👋
The New Yorker
The Slowness of Literature and the Shadow of Knowledge
8 min · · Science and literature alike are readers of the world. And, sooner or later, both lead us to the unreadable, the boundary at which the unintelligible begins. · Shared by 48, including Roney Lacerda, Ward Plunet, Bilal Aslam, Kyle Chayka, Lali, Oscar MacDonald
The New York Times
100 Notable Books of 2019
16+ min · · The year’s notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York Times Book Review. · Shared by 77, including Stephanie A Kowalski, Jane, Tom Connor, Lali, Neuropsychology, Elinor Stutz