The Toast has some texts from William Blake.

The 20 greatest YA heroines get ranked.

“Why Marilynne Robinson’s literary—and liberal—Calvinism appeals” at The American Conservative.

Bennett Sims won the Bard Fiction Prize.

President Harry S. Truman’s neckties.

Yale’s scientists take a look at the the school’s gender gap.

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