TODAY: In 1966, André Breton dies. “The spectral are getting louder, more insistent, more prevalent, and our literature, our cinema, reflect this.” Tara Badstubner explores why recent ghosts are (actually) haunting us. | Lit Hub Craft Watch Angela Flournoy discuss The Wilderness, class, the internet, and more with Brit Bennett and Raven Leilani at The Center for Fiction. | Lit Hub In Conversation Marion Gibson traces the real story behind 17th-century England’s witchcraft panic . | Lit Hub History William T. Vollmann on excavating American foreign policy and the d ecades-long process behind publishing his novel, A Table for Fortune. | Lit Hub Politics Alexandra Shackleton considers the legacy of her grandfather Ernest Shackleton’s great Antarctic expedition . | Lit Hub History “My all-girls’ high school was sometimes visited by crabs.

The first time I saw one show up was during my first year, on a rainy day in early summer.” Read “Crabs” from Hiroko Oyamada’s collection Garden , translated by Lucy North. | Lit Hub Fiction “Reading Don Quixote is reminding me that at least a point of literature is to goof around.” Lincoln Michel on reading Cervantes’ masterpiece in 2026 . | Counter Craft RFK’s ethics filing (lol) reveals, among other things, that Skyhorse Publishing has paid him a whole lot of money . | NPR On Edgar Allan Poe as “an excavator of repressed emotion.” | The New Republic “Borsook didn’t want me to come inside, lest I pull the old magazine hack’s scam of investing the decor with symbolic significance. She wrote enough stories of this kind in her heyday…to know how the game gets played.” Tommy Craggs profiles Paulina Borsook . | Wired Why do humans tell ourselves stories about dinosaurs? | Los Angeles Review of Books