Celebrate 155 Years With “Alice in Wonderland” and May Must-Reads

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Here’s what’s pulsing this week:

How the Writing and Worldview of A Wrinkle in Time Author, Madeleine L’Engle, Was Shaped Through Our Last Pandemic — Vanity Fair

The Flowers Can Wait! Here Are 9 Great Books to Read in May — Time

Emma Straub’s Much Anticipated  All Adults Here Has Finally Arrived and Her Characters Are in for a Few Personal Awakenings — BookTrib

Celebrate the 155th Birthday of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland With These 20 Artistic Interpretations of Alice — LitHub

No Need to Live a Life of Squalor While Cooped Up At Home, Decadent Self-Isolation is So Much More Appealing — The Paris Review

A TV Newswoman’s About to Discover the Worst Serial Killer of All Time in R.G. Belsky’s The Last Scoop — BookTrib

An Exciting Excerpt From the Collection of Artist, Architect and Writer Madeline Gins’s Poems and Experimental Prose — Art in America

American Sculptor Ruth Aswa’s Complex Life, Legacy and Her Dedicated Contributions to Arts Education — Hyperallergic

We Won’t Tell Your Mom if You’re Up Late with James Nestor’s Breath, But You’ll Never Breathe the Same Again — Spirituality and Health

These Frenemies Thought They’d Seen the Last of Each Other When They Buried Their Mutual Friend, But Their Dead Friend Has Other Plans for Them in Suzanne Nugent’s Brunch and Other Obligations — BookTrib

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