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Dragons Are People Too: Ursula Le Guin’s Acts of Recognition

Dragons Are People Too: Ursula Le Guin’s Acts of Recognition

John Plotz Revisits Earthsea

By John Plotz | August 24, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"For all of us who lack superpowers, storytelling may be the surest way to grasp the elastic dimensions of life"

By Book Marks | August 24, 2023

Julie Schumacher on How We Travel Now

Julie Schumacher on How We Travel Now

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 24, 2023

Jenn Shapland on Santa Fe and Fear of Cities

Jenn Shapland on Santa Fe and Fear of Cities

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | August 24, 2023

On the Bad Binary of

On the Bad Binary of "Good" and "Bad" Literature

Josh Cook on Taking Back the Idea of "Good Taste" from Cultural Authoritarians

By Josh Cook | August 23, 2023

Kathryn Bromwich Reads From <em>At the Edge of the Woods</em>

Kathryn Bromwich Reads From At the Edge of the Woods

From Damian Barr’s Literary Salon Podcast

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | August 23, 2023

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Vanessa Riley on Haiti's Only Queen

By History of Literature | August 21, 2023

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

By Book Marks | August 18, 2023

The Pleasure and Communion of Austen's Country Dance

By Cornelia Powers | August 17, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"Narrative is one of many tariffs that the world exacts from the uprooted"

By Book Marks | August 17, 2023

Edan Lepucki on the Rules of Time Travel and When She'd Like to Revisit

Edan Lepucki on the Rules of Time Travel and When She'd Like to Revisit

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | August 17, 2023

Samuel G. Freedman on What Hubert Humphrey’s Fight for Civil Rights Can Teach Us Today

Samuel G. Freedman on What Hubert Humphrey’s Fight for Civil Rights Can Teach Us Today

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | August 17, 2023

Was Tolstoy An Enemy of Love? On the Russian Great's Animosity Towards Desire

Was Tolstoy An Enemy of Love? On the Russian Great's Animosity Towards Desire

Ron Rosenbaum Considers the Essential Role of Love in Making Us Human

By Ron Rosenbaum | August 16, 2023

Reading Robert McCloskey’s Maine Trilogy as an Antidote to Climate Change Despair

Reading Robert McCloskey’s Maine Trilogy as an Antidote to Climate Change Despair

“I once again reach for these stories, and remember that we exist in a chain of forces that must be—and can be—respected.”

By Ethan Warren | August 16, 2023

Jo Caulfield Reads From <em>The Funny Thing About Death</em>

Jo Caulfield Reads From The Funny Thing About Death

From Damian Barr’s Literary Salon Podcast

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon | August 16, 2023

How My Friend Hilary Mantel Got Inside People's Minds

How My Friend Hilary Mantel Got Inside People's Minds

Miranda Miller on What Mantel Believed Was a Novelist's True Business

By Miranda Miller | August 16, 2023

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