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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Life Advice for Book Lovers: Finding Solace in the Sad and Sapphic

“I’d Read Her Grocery Lists.” On Cooking with Sylvia Plath

Lydia Millet on the Lack of Empathetic Characters in Fiction

WATCH: Billy-Ray Belcourt Discusses His Debut Novel, A Minor Chorus

Ingrid Rojas Contreras on What’s Gained by Losing Language

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The Annotated Nightstand: What Ross Gay is Reading Now and Next

Read These 10 Books That Actually Scared Us... If You Dare

Darryl Pinckney on Working for the New York Review of Books and Navigating New York City’s Literary Scene as a Young Black Writer

“Before the Words Became Pages, We Were Eating.” Why Kay Ulanday Barrett’s Best Poems Are About Food

Merve Emre: Why Going Viral on Twitter Makes You Non-Human in the Public Sphere

In Service of the Avant Garde: On the Unlikely Success
of Siglio Press

Lee Child and Andrew Child on Discipline, Dread, and Writing Late at Night

Listen to a Future Fable From Mieko Kawakami: “Sleep Is All Hers”

Manuel Muñoz on Writing Through Uncertainty

Erika T. Wurth on Writing Horror as a Former Dorky Kid

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