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Jennifer Weiner: How Plus-Size Women Finally—Finally!—Landed on Book Covers

Carlo Rovelli on How Literary Greats Find Inspiration in Scientific Rationality

Bud Smith on the Quintessential “Road Trip” Novel

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The Unpronounceable Name of God: Concluding a Journey Through the Hebrew Bible

Reclaiming Pamela Moore from the Sisterhood of Sad Literary Girls

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Robin Hemley on Kafka and Writerly Ambition

On the Moment Darrel Alejandro Holnes Started to Identify as a Poet

The Dust of Ancient Suns: Making Art and Meaning From the Depths of Deep Time

When You Learn Your Mother Was a Serious Writer Only After She’s Gone

Why It’s Good News That Bad Mothers Are All the Rage on the Page and the Screen

Trieste vs. Milan, Poetry vs. Plot: Beppe Severgnini on the Italian Love—And Need—For Poetry

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Westworld Meets Edgar Allan Poe: Sara M. Mueller on Creating the World of The Bone Orchard

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