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TODAY: In 1915, Edith Wharton writes in her diary about witnessing World War I in France .

“Primo Levi didn’t know why he deserved to survive: why him, rather than someone else?” On Primo Levi’s translation of Kafka after Auschwitz. | Lit Hub Criticism

Lucy Sante recommends books about memory by Frances A. Yates, Vladimir Nabokov, Donald Westlake, and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists

Is bartering a better system? On the relationship between money and things. | Lit Hub Politics

Librarians and archivists didn’t steal the Declaration of Independence, but they definitely fought over it . | Lit Hub History

How to separate truth from illusion while writing the biography of modern astrology’s mother. | Lit Hub Craft

The lessons we need to learn about climate change from the Pacific Palisades fires. | Lit Hub Climate Change

Masud Husain explains why dopamine doesn’t do what you think it does.…