- From PsychotoChristine, a highway is something “altogether different when they appear in the horror genre: therethey expose themselves as highways to hell.” | Lit HubFilm
- Fake news, far-right propaganda, exaggerated crowd sizes, a squabbling left. Sound familiar?Welcome to 1930s Berlin. | Lit HubHistory
- The story behind Nighthawks, Edward Hopper’s most famous painting. | Lit HubArt
- Whythe road to American fascism was pavedby Joe Biden and the Democratic Party. | Lit HubPolitics
- “The Haredim argued that mitzvot—good deeds performed to fulfill a Torah commandment—cannot be replaced by machines.”Grace Byron explores the Jewish case against AI. | The Nation
- Kaitlyn Greenidge and Samantha Irby talk sexy monsters, guilty pleasures, and Wicker. | Harper’s Bazaar
- Simon Torracinta exploresthe enduring urgency of John Berger’s work: “It was precisely this rejection of the separation between life and politics that made Berger’s criticism of art so powerful.” | Dissent
- “The element of chance is what prevents us from filling in the gaps with the things we already expect to see.”Amelia Soth on Carlo Ginzburg’s archive roulette. | n+1
- Kevin Ng considersthe music of Yiyun Li’sMusic Against the Nightand Barbara Kingsolver’sPartita.| The Baffler
- Substack didn’t save the state of writingon the internet. It’s just adding to the attention economy. | The New Yorker
- Léo Keler documents thecahiers de doléances, notebooks “made available in more than 16,000 town halls across France so that people could put their concerns and frustrations into words”—which then faded into obscurity (trans. Katie Assef). | The Dial
- When indie publishers die, we lose “the heartbeat of the industry, offering the few spaces to truly develop authors across their careers and take chances on projects.” | Chicago Review of Books
- Annie Ernaux onthe student protests, her Nobel Prize, autofiction, and more. | Vulture
- “The dream, even for a nonmonogamist like myself, is The One, the book that makes all others disappear, that enchants you completely and exclusively until the last page boots you back out into the world.”Maggie Shipstead on her omnivorous reading habits. | Longreads
- The life and death of a workplace AI assistant(or, a publishing horror story). | Wired
- The spookiest boom: Horror bookstores are cropping up everywhere. | The New York Times
- Andie Eisen talks to some ofthe women taking the reins of the death industry. | Los Angeles Review of Books
- This 19th-century death trainwill haunt you all Halloween weekend. | JSTOR Daily
- Jesse Wright exploresthe ghosts of Route 66 in the age of AI. | Current Affairs
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