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TODAY: In 1881, Count Leo Tolstoy sets off on a pilgrimage to a monastery disguised as a peasant.

Helen Bain follows in Sylvia Plath’s footsteps from Paris to Wellesley.| Lit Hub Biography

Sofia Montrone on becoming reacquainted with her grandfather through fiction: “Before I was a writer with characters of my own, I was imagining Ben.” | Lit Hub Craft

Brodie Crellin recommends six books with (actually) realistic sex by Robert Gluck, Nicholson Baker, Sheila Heti and more. | Lit Hub Reading Lists