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

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The Author Who Didn't Care to Be Remembered

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On the Curious Case of Ann Petry

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Acts of Recognition: On the Women Characters of Haruki Murakami

Acts of Recognition: On the Women Characters of Haruki Murakami

Mieko Kawakami Considers the Work of One of the World's Great Novelists

By Mieko Kawakami | October 3, 2019

Can Language Be Understood as a Spiritual Medium?

Can Language Be Understood as a Spiritual Medium?

Virginia Woolf, Anne Carson, and the Use of Form to
Investigate Truth and Death

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Sigrid Undset's Doomed Flâneuse is
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Lauren Elkin on Jenny, a Novel of Rome

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On the Courage and Complexity of Olga Tokarczuk

On the Courage and Complexity of Olga Tokarczuk

Jacek Dehnel Considers the Work of the Great Polish Novelist

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Lauren Groff on the Forgotten Genius of Nancy Hale

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