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Punctuation in novels
3 min · · When we think of novels, of newspapers and blogs, we think of words. We easily forget the little suggestions pushed in between: the… · Shared by 53, including Florian Hanke 🍎, Cameron Yick ~ @hydrosquall@vis.social on mastodon, Nick Wignall, Gisele Navarro, Mike Tamir, PhD, Florian Jungnikl-Gossy 🦋, Serge K. Keller ❦, Anthony Hamelle, Alex Barrera, Clive Thompson
Open Culture
Enter an Archive of 6,000 Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized and Free to Read Online
4 min · · We can learn much about how a historical period viewed the abilities of its children by studying i · Shared by 43, including Stephan Leduc, Arin Basu, Dr Nasima Riazat, 🌻 Laura Fitton (she/her) 🌻, Brad Brooks, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Wesley Fryer, Ph.D. 🌎🎙🚀 wesfryer.com/after, Lucas Foster
The Guardian
Literature provides shelter. That's why we need it
18+ min · · In a world that is hardening, literature can offer an indestructible place of refuge writes Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things · Shared by 21, including @grzewap@mastodon.social, Carly
The Paris Review
Proust and the Joy of Suffering
11+ min · · I had the sense, while I was reading Proust, that I was “reading Proust.” I was having a packaged experience like a tour of the Louvre. · Shared by 12, including Rick Powell
Literary Hub
The Writer and the Dictator: A Love/Hate Story
10 min · · If you want to understand Egypt, you have to read Return of the Spirit. Tawfiq al‐Hakim wrote it in 1927 when he was studying in Paris, and the moment it was published in Cairo in 1933 it took its … · Shared by 7
Electric Literature
What Does It Mean to Be a Thai Feminist?
7 min · · A Thai translator investigates how feminism appears in the language and literature of her home country · Shared by 7
The New York Review of Books
Kafka’s “A Message from the Emperor”: A New Translation
2 min · · The emperor—it is said—sent to you, the one apart, the wretched subject, the tiny shadow that fled far, far from the imperial sun, precisely to you he sent a message from his deathbed. He bade the… · Shared by 6
Electric Literature
48 Books By Women and Nonbinary Authors of Color to Read in 2019
10 min · · I started compiling this list of anticipated books a couple of years ago, when I was having trouble finding forthcoming books by women of color that I could read and review. It occurred to me that if… · Shared by 6
The Guardian
Arundhati Roy: 'I don't want to become an interpreter of the east to the west'
9 min · · After The God of Small Things made her a global star, the novelist turned to political activism and writing. Gary Younge finds out why · Shared by 6
Electric Literature
New and Classic Queer Literature to Read for Free Online
7 min · · 15 stories by Sarah Gerard, Igoni Barrett, Bryan Washington, and more from the Recommended Reading archive · Shared by 5
Electric Literature
5 Unclassifiable Books by Women, Recommended by Kathryn Scanlan
5 min · · The author of "Aug 9—Fog" picks books that break boundaries and expectations · Shared by 5
Electric Literature
7 Poetry Collections by Muslim Writers
3 min · · In her forward to Halal If You Hear Me, Safia Elhillo writes, “the poems and essays in this anthology are the Muslim community I didn’t know I was allowed to dream of. The Muslim community my child… · Shared by 5
The TLS
Latin quotes: why context is everything
· I suppose a classicist should be glad to see the words of the ancients still playing a role in public life. And yes I am … but just occasionally one wishes that the eager quoters would get the context…