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    All Writing is a Kind of Realism

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    Vera Pavlova Writes Poems to Be Read By the Light of a Single Match

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    About Suffering, Robert Lowell Was Never Wrong

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    Stephanie Powell Watts on Writing Hard Times in Small Towns

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    Édouard Louis on Class, Violence, and Literature as a Space of Resistance

    By Monika Zaleska  May 8, 2017
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    By Literary Hub  May 8, 2017
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    Between Fiction and the Brutal Reality of Mexico’s Drug War

    By Diego Enrique Osorno  May 2, 2017
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    Illness as Horror Movie, and Other Thoughts on Time, Disease, and Capitalism

    By Matthew Sharpe  April 28, 2017
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    Salvation Under a Midnight Sun

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