TODAY: In 1827, William Blake dies.

• “The intersection of queer theory and community with the study of Talmud may seem obscure, but it has changed my life.” Ava Nathaniel Winter on poetic embodiment and queerness in Judaism. | Lit Hub In Conversation
• Can computers truly create? On the possibilities and limits of machine assisted art. | Lit Hub Technology

Whose “family values”? Brian Tyler Cohen exposes the lie behind the Republican Party’s claims to moral superiority. | Lit Hub Politics

Sarah Seltzer on why Jane Austen has more in common with sex, drugs, and rock ‘n roll than you think. | Lit Hub Criticism

• “[Jackson’s] encounter with Stowe…was nonetheless an encounter that, quite possibly, changed the world.” On the real-life inspiration for Uncle Tom’s Cabin. | Lit Hub History
• “Luce once explained that her fathers taught her to compose a globe like this: first, you craft two half spheres and then you cut these thin strips of map to fit over it.” Read from Lindsay Drager’s novel, The Avian Hourglass. | Lit Hub Fiction
• “Restorative nostalgia has been part of conservative American politics for as long as there’s been a mass media to exploit the public’s hunger for it.” On the aesthetics (and politics) of nostalgia. | Jacobin
• On Fogwill: “He absorbed the different strands of the Argentine tradition and produced a literature that defies classification: a literature of ideas and the body, the political and the personal, the ordinary and the ineffable.” | The Paris Review
• Why the stock image of an anarchist shouldn’t be a rioter, but a printer. | JSTOR Daily
• Is television ruining thriller novels? | The Washington Post
• Advocates react to Utah’s recent ban of 13 books from its public schools. | The Guardian
• Elizabeth Minkle explores the power of fictional food. | Atlas Obscura

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