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In Praise of the Realistic Hope of Jonathan Franzen’s Endings

When You’re Craving Oddities: 5 Books You May Have
Missed in July

On Robin McKinley’s Fantasies and the Books That Are “Just Yours”

Grendel at 50: How John Gardner’s Finest Novel Undermines His Ideas About Moral Fiction

My Shadow Book: On Consciously—or Unconsciously—Immortalizing Ex-Partners in Literary Fiction

Novels That Offer Easy Lessons Aren’t Worth Reading

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On the Art of Literary Name-Calling: The Best and Most Baroque Insults Are Micro-Poems for the Ages

The Enduring Appeal of Fictional Sisters: A Reading List

The Power and Perils of Storytelling: How We Make Narratives Out of Predatory Relationships

In Praise of the Info Dump: A Literary Case for Hard Science Fiction

On Bafflement: Reflections on Marilynne Robinson and the Theology of Skateboarding

Women’s Memoirs at the Intersection of Chronic Illness, Mental Illness, Addiction, and Trauma

Thereness on the Outer Banks: On Landscape in Literature

On the 1983 Newbery Book That Should Be Left by the Wayside

Was Bridget Jones's Diary the First Internet Novel?

Sabina Murray on the Limits of Journalism and the Wondrous Possibilities of Fiction

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