There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

New at PB: Jed Kudrick & @sdileonardi.bsky.social use data from the NYT bestseller list to map 3 popular waves of literature in translation in the US: the postwar popularity of European titles, the "Latin American boom," & the more recent explosion of Nordic noir.

The imagined consumer on the landing page for Google's NotebookLM is a student in an upper-division literature course who has been assigned James Joyce's "Ulysses," and asks the software to summarize the novel and identify its themes.

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Loving Helen Oyeyemi’s newest novel A NEW NEW ME. I’m an Oyeyemi evangelist because of her ability to play with form, but this newest book goes to new heights with its polyphonic (yet at the same time monophonic) voice. Seven personalities, one person—one for each day of the week. Her funniest too!