THE BEST OF THE LITERARY INTERNET

TODAY: In 1814, Mansfield Park is published .

Elizabeth Zaleski compiles a list of the Western literary canon’s greatest farts . | Lit Hub Reading Lists

“As it happens, most early readers of my novel have found Dickens less sympathetic than I do.” On Charles Dickens and other bad men who are very good writers . | Lit Hub Craft

Clara Hillis on the poetics of Light and Thread , Han Kang’s first nonfiction work to be published in English. | Lit Hub Criticism

Xuela Zhang writes against righteousness in poetry : “I am nauseated by the certainties transnational poets are expected to keep performing.” | Lit Hub Poetry

Louis Staples considers the “hustle myth” at the heart of The Devil Wears Prada . | Harper’s Bazaar

“Anyone who regularly stands in front of a classroom will recognize this paradox: the best way to learn something is to teach it.” Michael Gorra reflects on his teaching life . | NYRB

What happens when algorithms erase indigenous languages ?…