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WATCH: Catherine Menon and Colm Tóibín at the Hay Festival

WATCH: Catherine Menon and Colm Tóibín at the Hay Festival

The Debut Novelist Discusses Her New Book, Fragile Monsters

By The Virtual Book Channel | May 28, 2021

Casting “Place” as a Character: On the Essence of Rural America

Casting “Place” as a Character: On the Essence of Rural America

Gigi Georges Recommends Nonfiction that Moves
Beyond Hillbilly Elegy

By Gigi Georges | May 27, 2021

Bo-Young Kim on Finding Unlikely Sci-Fi Influences

Bo-Young Kim on Finding Unlikely Sci-Fi Influences

From Herman Hesse to Tezuka Osamu

By Bo-Young Kim | May 27, 2021

How Ra’ad Abdulqadir Changed the Iraqi Prose Poem Forever

How Ra’ad Abdulqadir Changed the Iraqi Prose Poem Forever

Translator Mona Kareem on His Writing and View of History

By Mona Kareem | May 27, 2021

How Would the Sisters of <em>Little Women</em> Experience the World Today?

How Would the Sisters of Little Women Experience the World Today?

Virginia Kantra on Updating a Classic

By Virginia Kantra | May 26, 2021

Seeking a Connection to My Grandmother in Alice Munro’s Queer Characters

Seeking a Connection to My Grandmother in Alice Munro’s Queer Characters

B. Pietras on the Old Women and Queer Men of Munro’s Fiction

By B. Pietras | May 26, 2021

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Judy Grahn on Erotic Power, Queerness, and the Goddess Inanna

By Corinne Segal | May 26, 2021

38 Novels You Need to Read This Summer

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Joy Harjo on Words as Maps, and a Poem by Craig Santos Perez

By Joy Harjo and Craig Santos Perez | May 25, 2021

How Robert Aickman’s Stories Illuminate the Difference Between Horror and Terror

How Robert Aickman’s Stories Illuminate the Difference Between Horror and Terror

Kathleen Rooney Guests on the Lit Century Podcast with Catherine Nichols and Elisa Gabbert

By Lit Century | May 25, 2021

18 new books to read on the beach this week.

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By Katie Yee | May 25, 2021

The Only Living Black Man in New York: On an Overlooked, Subversive Sci-Fi Story by W.E.B. Du Bois

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Gabby Bellot Considers “The Comet” and the Pervasive Legacy
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Toward a Typology of Titles, Or: What the Hell to Call a Story

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Chris Drangle Takes an Objective Look at an Excruciatingly Subjective Endeavor

By Chris Drangle | May 24, 2021

The Concept of the Guilty Pleasure Privileges Productivity Above All Else

The Concept of the Guilty Pleasure Privileges Productivity Above All Else

Arielle Zibrak on the Importance of Relaxing With a Good Book (Any Book)

By Arielle Zibrak | May 24, 2021

Writing From Inside the Precarious Hunger of Childhood

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Linda Rui Feng on the Stories and Books That Cracked Open the Possibilities of Storytelling

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Other Worlds, Other Voices: Reading Translated Science Fiction by Women

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Sharmila Cohen on Books By and About Women

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