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Marlon James is Not the Updike of Jamaica, and Other Revelations
The Man Booker Winner Reflects on the Year That Was, With John Freeman
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John Freeman
| December 3, 2015
The Poet on His Island
A Final Conversation with Tomas Tranströmer
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| June 2, 2015
Edward St. Aubyn: A Writer's Suicide Pact
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| May 19, 2015
Knausgaard on Masculinity, Excrement, and Quitting
A Conversation with Karl, on the eve of Book Four
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John Freeman
| April 27, 2015
A Brief History of the Future of Reading
From page to screen to phone and back again
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John Freeman
| April 8, 2015
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