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    By Zahra Hankir  December 5, 2023

    Space Pastoral: Finding a New Literary Genre in the Slow Death of the International Space Station

    Samantha Harvey on Sci-Fi Becoming Sci-Fact and the End of an Era in Technology

     
    By Samantha Harvey  December 5, 2023

    Between Conversion and Repentance: Christian Wiman on the Uses of Fiction

    “Once I wanted poetry to save me. From what? For what is the better question.”

     
    By Christian Wiman  December 5, 2023

    Poor Things is a Curious Phantasmagoria

    Olivia Rutigliano on Yorgos Lanthimos’s (Best) New Film

     
    By Olivia Rutigliano  December 5, 2023

    Kate Christensen on Allowing Characters to Tell Their Own Stories

    Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Welcome Home, Stranger

     
    By Jane Ciabattari  December 5, 2023

    “The Frisson of Pure Evil.” An Oral History of the Release of the Velvet Underground’s First Album

    “There were just so many layers and so many colors. Even if all the colors were dark.”

     
    By Dylan Jones  December 5, 2023