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Rumi Priestly Poet of Love <em>and</em> Master of the One Liner

Rumi Priestly Poet of Love and Master of the One Liner

Brad Gooch on One of the World's Great Poets

By Brad Gooch | October 10, 2019

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Giant of Kenyan Letters

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Giant of Kenyan Letters

Billy Kahora on a Global Literary Icon

By Billy Kahora | October 9, 2019

Philip Pullman on Children's Literature and the Critics Who Disdain It

Philip Pullman on Children's Literature and the Critics Who Disdain It

Don't Let Anyone Tell You What You Should or Should Not Be Reading

By Philip Pullman | October 8, 2019

On the Darkness at the Heart of Jamaica Kincaid's Children's Mystery

On the Darkness at the Heart of Jamaica Kincaid's Children's Mystery

Gabrielle Bellot Considers Party

By Gabrielle Bellot | October 7, 2019

In Nazism, Joseph Roth Saw the End of Europe’s Cosmopolitan Dream

In Nazism, Joseph Roth Saw the End of Europe’s Cosmopolitan Dream

Morten Høi Jensen on the Devastation of an Idea

By Morten Høi Jensen | October 7, 2019

On the Endless Parade of Literary Dead Girls

On the Endless Parade of Literary Dead Girls

"The dead girls are speaking everywhere"

By Zefyr Lisowski | October 7, 2019

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The Anti-Colonial Vision of James Baldwin's Last Two Unfinished Works

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By Mieko Kawakami | October 3, 2019

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Ocean Vuong: The 10 Books<br> I Needed to Write My Novel

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On Monsieur Bovary, One of Literature's Most Necessary Characters

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