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Rachel Kushner: Everything Behind You Is Part of Your Present Tense

Half Lives and Long Drives:
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Reimagining the Ancient World: A Reading List

On the Missing Racial History in Jerry Spinelli’s Maniac Magee

What Are the Most Discussed Books on the Internet?

The Obsessive Scholar Who Rescued Iceland’s Ancient Literary Legacy

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In Praise of Atul Gawande’s Anti-Self Help Book,
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Substance If Not Style: On the Radical Similarities of Alice Munro and Pedro Almodóvar

Alison Bechdel on Transcendentalism, Bliss, and The Secret to Superhuman Strength

Kate Durbin on Finding Beauty in the Possessions That Possess Us

What Do We Mean When We Say a Novel is Without Plot?

A Writer From the Future: Who Was Sci Fi Iconoclast Izumi Suzuki?

Hanif Abdurraqib on Censoring the Desires of Whiteness in Storytelling

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