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Rabih Alameddine
Six Very Depressing Books That Might Just Cheer You Up
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“One Rapper’s Dreams of FBI Stardom”
A New Short Story by Rabih Alameddine From the Anthology
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By
Rabih Alameddine
| March 25, 2022
Rabih Alameddine Asks His MFA Students for
Their
Favorite Novels of the Year
Students Weigh in on Their Favorite Titles
By
Rabih Alameddine
| December 17, 2021
Rabih Alameddine's Year in Reading: Poetry Edition
"You know that I hate end-of-year lists..."
By
Rabih Alameddine
| December 17, 2020
Rabih Alameddine Recommends Some Gay Books You Might Not Have Known Were Gay
Happy Pride, Everyone
By
Rabih Alameddine
| June 26, 2020
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
How to Bartend
By
Rabih Alameddine
| April 8, 2020
Rabih Alameddine: The Oddest Books I Read This Year
By
Rabih Alameddine
| December 19, 2019
Rabih Alameddine: The Novels I Loved This Year
By
Rabih Alameddine
| December 14, 2018
Adriane Leigh on Why We Are Living in the Age of the Unreliable Narrator
January 29, 2026
by
Adriane Leigh
The Greatest Muckrakers of the Progressive Era
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by
Rob Osler
Why Revenge Stories Are Hard-Wired Into Our Brains
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by
Pat Kelly
The Best Reviewed Books of the Week
"Slim and stark Barnes s prose is largely stripped bare it resembles a tall ship…"
