Grace Glass remembers the “unexorcisable” Annie Dillard . | n+1

“ Though many Canadians look at the US with mingled fascination and disgust, it is a historical fact that, for centuries, migrants from Canada have helped make America prosperous.” Paul Theroux on what Americans get wrong about Canada . | The Walrus

Christopher Rice explores how his mother channeled grief while writing Interview With the Vampire . | The New York Times

How Parisian librarians managed to lend books during World War II. | JSTOR Daily

Jamieson Webster explores a psychoanalytic history of the sea : “Poor Freud. The great explorer of the unconscious could find no feeling for that oceanic depth.” | Broadcast

“The single, blanket label “haiku” is something of a misnomer—it folds an entire family of short forms, senryū among them, into one word and hides a complex and rich relationship between Japanese and Hungarian poetic forms.” How the haiku came to Hungary. | Asymptote