Links of the Week, vol. 17

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Ivan Bunin hated everyone… well, almost everyone.

A very interesting list.

Tap Water Sommelier | Konstantin Asimonov

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Feedly launches strikebreaking as a service.

The company claims to have not considered before launch whether their new protest and strike surveillance tool could be misused.

Molly White | Citation Needed

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Handmaid’s Tale Banned in Edmonton (Alberta, Canada) Schools

“And everyone and their pet canary wants me to ‘comment.'”

Substack | Margaret Atwood

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Obscure But Badass Folks You Should Know About.

I knew 5 of them.

Neatorama

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What Jane Austen’s Possessions Reveal About Her Literary Ethos

Small things can be almost sacred, as is Fanny Price’s “nest of comforts,” assembled out of bits and pieces in the old schoolroom at Mansfield Park—a faded footstool, a collection of family silhouettes, a sketch of her brother’s ship; objects none of which is considered good enough for display elsewhere. Or they can be slippery, unnoticed clues—in Emma, the spectacles whose loose rivet Frank Churchill is discovered mending with such fixed concentration in Miss Bates’s sitting room.

Literary Hub | Kathryn Sutherland 

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The Website at the End of the Internet.

Reddit is one of the last thriving islands of the old web. Can it survive AI?

NY Mag | John Herrman