Is it or isn’t it? James Folta considers how generative AI is poisoning the literary well for everyone. | Lit Hub Technology

Oksana Lutsyshyna recommends essential contemporary Ukrainian literature by Artur Dron, Andriy Lyubka, and Lena Lyagushonkova. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

The case against painting your walls white. | Lit Hub Design

How newspapers helped democratize knowledge (because reading isn’t just for the rich). | Lit Hub Politics

What Paul Bochner learned about himself after forming a relationship with a rescue raccoon. | Lit Hub Memoir

Why is rent so damn high? You can probably blame the algorithms. | Lit Hub Politics

On the medieval European witch hunts that targeted and punished nonconformist women. | Lit Hub History

“There are few in American history who stand taller.” Al Sharpton remembers his mentor, Jesse Jackson. | Lit Hub Biography

“The Author is facing the sea, his cheeks orange from the lowering sun. There’s Maja, walking towards him, from behind, tentative, yet her right arm is reaching for him, reaching around him.” Read from Denise Rose Hansen’s novel, Blue Sunset. | Lit Hub Fiction

“I have waited for much of my adult life for (straight) men to start a liberation movement akin to feminism, one that would publicly reject the conformity, repression, and aggression that define [this] kind of masculinity.” Rebecca Solnit enters the Manosphere. | The Nation

Most readers can’t reliably spot AI writing and, Colin Horgan argues, their attempts to do so are “turning writer and reader into adversaries.” | The Walrus

Megan Marz consider’s Richard Cooke’s new book on the history of Wikipedia and what it takes to write about the internet’s free encyclopedia. | The Baffler

Snigdha Poonam investigates the wild (and profitable) world of literary AI scams. | The Dial

BookTok’s latest obsession? Horny dubstep. | 404 Media