The Best Literary Links I’ve Come Across This Week (Round 5)

It’s time for another carefully curated collection of the Best Literary Links I’ve Come Across This Week. It was a particularly good week, as literary links go—but you’ll soon find that out for yourself. Enjoy.

• Listening Isn’t Cheating: How Audio Books Can Help Us Learn (KQED)
• Why the British Tell Better Children’s Stories (The Atlantic)
• The Iliad, Improved: An Illustrated Panorama of Ajax (The Paris Review)
• Let Down by the Lists (The Times Literary Supplement)
• We Went in Search of the World’s Hardest Language (The Economist/Medium)

Happy reading! And happy holidays!

The Best Literary Links I’ve Come Across This Week

Let’s skip the preamble, shall we?

• INFOGRAPHIC: Character Interactions in Shakespeare’s Tragedies (Electric Literature)
• Reading Pathways: Edith Wharton (Book Riot)
• The 5 Least Feminist Moments in Harry Potter (Bustle)
• Fairy Tales May Be Much Older Than Previously Thought (The Guardian)
• What’s a Language, Anyway? (The Atlantic)
• Virginia Woolf’s Typewriter (New York Public Library)

Happy reading!