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What obscure words should we bring back into daily use?

What obscure words should we bring back into daily use?

By Jonny Diamond | January 11, 2022

21 new books coming your way this week.

21 new books coming your way this week.

By Katie Yee | January 11, 2022

Jericho Brown on Claude McKay’s Subversive, Foundational Poems of Love and Protest

Jericho Brown on Claude McKay’s Subversive, Foundational Poems of Love and Protest

“In Harlem Shadows McKay used form to inscribe the fact of his own Blackness.”

By Jericho Brown | January 11, 2022

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What Makes The Princess Bride Such a Great Movie?

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By Chris Jones | January 11, 2022

Why Do We Return to the Greek Myths Again and Again?

Why Do We Return to the Greek Myths Again and Again?

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The Creative Power of Rage: On Fictionalizing the Lives of Righteously Violent Historical Women

The Creative Power of Rage: On Fictionalizing the Lives of Righteously Violent Historical Women

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By Gwen E. Kirby | January 11, 2022

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Vision Quest: On Trying to Define the Great American Novel

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Learning From Almanac of the Dead, a Hallmark of Indigenous Literature

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My Hundred-Year-Old Boyfriend: On Hermann Hesse’s <em>Siddhartha</em>

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Andre Bagoo Looks Back on Some Very Earthly Attachments

By Andre Bagoo | January 10, 2022

Navigating Broken Systems: Taylor Harris on Writing a Memoir of Medical Motherhood

Navigating Broken Systems: Taylor Harris on Writing a Memoir of Medical Motherhood

Lynn Steger Strong in Conversation with Taylor Harris

By Lynn Steger Strong | January 10, 2022

A Literary History of Dragons

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Interview with an Indie Press: Europa Editions

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On Publishing for a Global Audience

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Xochitl Gonzalez on the Emotional Toll of Success

Xochitl Gonzalez on the Emotional Toll of Success

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Dissolving Genre: Toward Finding New Ways to Write About the World

Dissolving Genre: Toward Finding New Ways to Write About the World

Ingrid Horrocks on Reimagining the Relationship Between the Human and the Non-Human

By Ingrid Horrocks | January 6, 2022

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