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Sibling Duos, Trios, Quartets, and More: Nine Stories and Folktales Featuring Sisters

Sibling Duos, Trios, Quartets, and More: Nine Stories and Folktales Featuring Sisters

Fran Littlewood Recommends Alison Espach, Katherine Mansfield, the Brothers Grimm, and Others

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Hal Ebbott on Writing a Novel of Male Friendship

Hal Ebbott on Writing a Novel of Male Friendship

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Among Friends”

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Belle Starr! Agatha Christie! A reality-TV Lord of the Flies! 22 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | June 24, 2025

Black Finnegan: On William Melvin Kelley, James Joyce, and the Avant-Garde of the Subaltern

Black Finnegan: On William Melvin Kelley, James Joyce, and the Avant-Garde of the Subaltern

Benjamin Hale Remembers His Literary Mentor

By Benjamin Hale | June 23, 2025

The Dark Magic of Words: Why Fascism and Illiberalism Are So Seductive to Writers

The Dark Magic of Words: Why Fascism and Illiberalism Are So Seductive to Writers

Ed Simon Looks at Eduard Limonov, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Yukio Mishima, and Others

By Ed Simon | June 23, 2025

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“Fidelity to Both Pleasure and Humiliation.” On M.F.K. Fisher’s Feminist Realism

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“Politics is Everywhere.” A Close and Highly Critical Reading of English PEN’s Charter

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The Annotated Nightstand: What Catherine Lacey is Reading Now and Next

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Rambling Genealogies: Nandshankar Mehta and the Forgotten History of South Asian Cosmopolitanism

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