TODAY: In 1923, Japanese author Shūsaku Endō is born. 

• “His daughter Nicole, age fifteen, maneuvered carefully between a column of parked cars and a column of those not yet parked.” Read from Nell Zink’s new novel, Sister Europe. | Lit Hub Fiction
• Nicole Rudick examines what typeface has to do with the success of Crockett Johnson’s Barnaby. | Broadcast
• “I now realize how much I sacrificed for so long, how I whittled myself into someone who could survive anywhere, making myself believe survival was enough.” Roxane Gay on finding a sense of place and belonging. | MIT Press Reader 
• Grant Miner, a Columbia student expelled for participating in on-campus Palestine protests, speaks out: “All across the country, students and workers are mobilizing to stop similarly politically motivated cuts at other universities. Why aren’t our universities taking up the same banner?” | The Nation 
• Look inside the Joan Didion Papers at the New York Public Library. | Vulture
• Anna Mebel recommends against reading Jon Fosse on a plane. | Asymptote
• “Daddy is from a place called Palestine, he said, in a lesson captured by my mother on the family’s camcorder.” Sarah Aziza on family history in Gaza. | The Paris Review

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