Why a Small-Town Record Store in Rural Pennsylvania Was My First Library

Why a Small-Town Record Store in Rural Pennsylvania Was My First Library

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Murakami Bingo: Is Animation the Ideal Form for Adapting the “Undadaptable” Author?

Murakami Bingo: Is Animation the Ideal Form for Adapting the “Undadaptable” Author?

A Survey of Murakami Reimaginings, from Burning to Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

By Ryan Bedsaul | May 18, 2023

Announcing the Winners of the 92 Street Y Discovery Contest

Announcing the Winners of the 92 Street Y Discovery Contest

Read the Winning Poems Selected by Judges Kaveh Akbar, Tracie Morris and Simone White

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Legally Literary: A Reading List of Lawyers (or Law Students) Turned Writers

Legally Literary: A Reading List of Lawyers (or Law Students) Turned Writers

Deepa Varadajan Recommends Elizabeth Strout, Mohsin Hamid, Daniyal Mueenuddin, and Many More

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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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Anne Berest’s Best Story Came From Deep in Her Family’s Past

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“Every life is a novel for those who are curious enough.”

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Abraham Verghese on Marrying Medicine With Literature

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Alexis Pauline Gumbs on Audre Lorde’s <em>The Black Unicorn</em>

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Emma Cline: No One Captures Memory Like Mary Gaitskill

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The Character-Revealing Power of Having a Play Within a Novel

The Character-Revealing Power of Having a Play Within a Novel

Olivia Wolfgang-Smith Explores Metadrama, Defying Genre, and the Performances We Do On and Off the Page

By Olivia Wolfgang-Smith | May 16, 2023

Outsider Paris: A Reading List of the Dark Side of the City of Light

Outsider Paris: A Reading List of the Dark Side of the City of Light

Celia Bell Recommends Mina Loy, Louis-Sébastien Mercier, and More

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