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Extractor of Secrets, Discloser of Secrets: On the Complex Role of the Biographer

Extractor of Secrets, Discloser of Secrets: On the Complex Role of the Biographer

Debra Dean Considers the Therapeutic Effects of Telling Our Stories

By Debra Dean | July 1, 2021

The Inner Lives of Black Women: On Novels That Break the Chains of Trauma

The Inner Lives of Black Women: On Novels That Break the Chains of Trauma

Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler Recommends Candice Carty-Williams, Jacqueline Woodson, and More

By Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler | July 1, 2021

Do Books Have to Be Depressing to Be Taken Seriously?

Do Books Have to Be Depressing to Be Taken Seriously?

Matt Haig Guests on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | July 1, 2021

What <em>Lord of the Flies</em> got wrong: the kids are actually alright.

What Lord of the Flies got wrong: the kids are actually alright.

By Jonny Diamond | June 30, 2021

Writing the “Eastern Western.” On the Massive Resurgence of Asian American Westerns 

Writing the “Eastern Western.” On the Massive Resurgence of Asian American Westerns 

Lavinia Liang Considers the Meaning of Land, Territory, Americanness, and Lost Histories

By Lavinia Liang | June 30, 2021

Kazuo Ishiguro’s Daytime Horror: On Cults, White Supremacy, and Pagan Aesthetics

Kazuo Ishiguro’s Daytime Horror: On Cults, White Supremacy, and Pagan Aesthetics

Mieko Anders Considers Klara and the Sun and Midsommar

By Mieko Anders | June 30, 2021

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How the Prophetic Fiction of Kathrine Kressmann Taylor Exposed the Dangers of Nazism and the Rise of Hitler

By Margot Livesy | June 30, 2021

When Activist Poets Took Over a Tiny California Town

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Charles McGrath: On the Avant-Garde Literary Genius of Donald Barthelme

Charles McGrath: On the Avant-Garde Literary Genius of Donald Barthelme

“His fallback, his signature, is always humor.”

By Charles McGrath | June 29, 2021

The Ongoingness of War in Ismail Kadare’s <em>The General of the Dead Army</em>

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Tom Lin on the Importance of Conducting Literary Field Work

Tom Lin on the Importance of Conducting Literary Field Work

Jane Ciabattari Speaks with the Author of The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu

By Jane Ciabattari | June 29, 2021

Very Different Writers, Uncanny Commonalities: On Lee Child and<br> Heidi James

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Romance Novels for Hot-Everybody Summer

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Erin Flanagan on the Diversity of an Often Disparaged Genre

By Erin Flanagan | June 28, 2021

Trust the Text: On Translating the Autobiographical Novel of Linda Boström Knausgård

Trust the Text: On Translating the Autobiographical Novel of Linda Boström Knausgård

Saskia Vogel Considers the Role of Writing as Memory in October Child

By Saskia Vogel | June 28, 2021

On the Unbearable Whiteness of Mainstream, Canonical Southern Literature 

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Anjali Enjeti Considers Racist Meta-Narratives and the Stories We Have Yet to Tell

By Anjali Enjeti | June 28, 2021

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