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Making Space for Palestinian Happiness

Making Space for Palestinian Happiness

Nabil Echchaibi on Finding Joy Amidst the Crush of Occupation

By Nabil Echchaibi | August 7, 2024

Climate Change, AI, and Technological Surveillance: Reading About the Very Near Future

Climate Change, AI, and Technological Surveillance: Reading About the Very Near Future

Helen Phillips Recommends Octavia Butler, Jessamine Chan, Arthur I. Miller, and More

By Helen Phillips | August 7, 2024

Experiencing Place in Fiction: On Allowing Your Characters to Get Lost

Experiencing Place in Fiction: On Allowing Your Characters to Get Lost

Lena Valencia on Writing Place Like a Character, Rebecca Solnit, and the American Southwest

By Lena Valencia | August 7, 2024

Sonya Kelly on Jean-Dominique Bauby's <em>The Diving Bell and the Butterfly</em>

Sonya Kelly on Jean-Dominique Bauby's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

In Conversation for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | August 7, 2024

Helen Phillips on Writing Speculative Fiction in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Helen Phillips on Writing Speculative Fiction in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Hum”

By Jane Ciabattari | August 6, 2024

The Lights Don’t Just Go Out: A Lifelong Fainter on How Fiction Gets Fainting All Wrong

The Lights Don’t Just Go Out: A Lifelong Fainter on How Fiction Gets Fainting All Wrong

Sophie Brickman on “Charlotte's Web,” JD Salinger, and Capturing Fainting from the Fainter’s Perspective

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We Are All Nobody: Mary Jo Salter on Finding Beauty and Community in Poetry

We Are All Nobody: Mary Jo Salter on Finding Beauty and Community in Poetry

“Let’s try to put our own vanities aside when we write poems, and let’s read the poems by other people that make us feel most alive.”

By Mary Jo Salter | August 3, 2024

A Century of James Baldwin

A Century of James Baldwin

Celebrating 100 Years of a Great American Mind

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Towards Universality: On Reading—and Rereading—James Baldwin’s “Sonny’s Blues”

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Tom Jenks Considers the Eternal Power of a Masterpiece of American Short Fiction

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Colm Tóibín on James Baldwin’s Enduring, International Influence

Colm Tóibín on James Baldwin’s Enduring, International Influence

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By Caoilinn Hughes | August 2, 2024

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Pocket Universes, and a Villainess to Root For: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

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