“The legal protection the German government gave our American relationship is gone, now that we are back in America.” Alexander Chee on coming home from Leipzig with his partner.
The Opposite of Homesick
Banned Books Week
Comic of the Week: Over at Electric Lit, check out Grant Snider’s comic on why we ban books. We look at The Lorax and other dangerous books in honor of Banned Books Week.
On Lispector’s Humanity
“If rats then represent terror and chickens innocent striving for something approaching authenticity, humans, for Lispector, are strangely in the middle, often stricken with fear, or handing out terror, but ready also to soar or break loose or achieve some freedom or be fully alert to their fate in a time short enough for one of her stories to be enacted.” Colm Tóibín writes about Clarice Lispector’s The Complete Stories. You could also check out a Year in Reading by Katrina Dodson, translator of the collection and our review of the book.
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The Fire in Fiction
In the wake of the Notre Dame fire in Paris, Victor Hugo's classic novel, 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame,' has risen to the top of France's bestseller list.
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The Langston Hughes Comic
Recommended Viewing: Afua Richardson has illustrated Langston Hughes’s poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.”
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A Literary Trip
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