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Ilya Kaminsky on Discovering Poetry as a Deaf Child in Ukraine

Ilya Kaminsky on Discovering Poetry as a Deaf Child in Ukraine

“The language of poetry speaks to all our senses... It can speak, privately, to all of us. It is visceral.”

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A Talent for Trouble: A Brief History of Paddington Bear

A Talent for Trouble: A Brief History of Paddington Bear

Michael Horowitz on the Gentle Refugee (and Best Bear of Them All?)

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Charlie Jane Anders on How A.S. Byatt’s <em>Possession</em> Paved the Way for Dark Academia

Charlie Jane Anders on How A.S. Byatt’s Possession Paved the Way for Dark Academia

The Author of “Lessons in Magic and Disaster” Rereads an Iconic Text in a Time of Academic Suppression

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Exploring Octavia Butler’s Beginnings as a Sci-Fi Trailblazer

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Susana M. Morris on the Early Writing of a Literary Icon

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The Night the Warring Poet Clans of NYC Came Together in Peace

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Will Bardenwerper on Baseball’s Betrayal of Its Minor League Roots

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The View From Gaza—As Seen Through WB Yeats’s Widening Gyre

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