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“If Baldwin found peace with his stepfather after his death, then his early writing was an exorcism of sorts.” Douglas Field on James Baldwin and complex relationships with paternal figures. | Lit Hub Biography

Christiana Spens on searching for her father (and the Moomins) in Helsinki. | Lit Hub Craft

Jessie Van Eerden considers notions of home and self through biblical stories, desire, and a painting by Velázquez. | Lit Hub Art

Kate Golembiewski explores the long history of Moon lore: “It is not surprising, then, that since ancient times, humans have wondered if the cycle of the Moon might exert similar power over our minds.” | Lit Hub History

“Bioluminescence, like most all distinctive traits, evolved to attract mates, defend against predators, and aid in the hunt for food.” On the power and beauty of an illuminating oceanic phenomenon. | Lit Hub Nature

“And I stood where I always stood, I answered as I always used to answer.” Read from Ingvild Rishøi’s novel Brightly Shining, translated by Caroline Waight. | Lit Hub Fiction

Our magazine seeks stories, essays and poems that wonder how we might live in the aftermath of disasters, how we might recommit ourselves to community and language, and how such affirmations will necessitate, as our namesake suggests, a clear-eyed engagement with the aesthetic, the ethical, and the numinous.

“Sometimes it feels to me, too, like India is the entire world. Not just because it is the world I grew up in, intermittently, but also because it’s a place whose future affects everyone…” On Quarterlife by Devika Rege and the state of Indian fiction after Narendra Modi. | The Baffler

Tasha Sandoval on a literary canon that honors elders: “Through intergenerational dialogue and deft, emotive narration, the new abuelita canon gives a sense of interiority and agency to our abuelita’s lives.” | Public Books 

Brahim El Guabli explores indigenous Amazigh literary tradition. | Words Without Borders

Maya Schenwar and Kim Wilson discuss what parenting and abolitionist organizing have in common. | The Nation

Joshua Rothman examines the relationship between the language of technology and the language of politics. | The New Yorker

Are these the most influential cookbooks of the past century? | T Magazine

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