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Murakami vs. Bolaño: Competing Visions of the Global Novel

Murakami vs. Bolaño: Competing Visions of the Global Novel

What Should International Fiction Accomplish?

By Adam Kirsch | April 24, 2017

How I Learned to Love the Weird, From Octavia Butler to Kelly Link

How I Learned to Love the Weird, From Octavia Butler to Kelly Link

Brian Francis Slattery Finds a Home in the Strange and Unsettling

By Brian Francis Slattery | April 21, 2017

Nihilism or Wonder? On the Evolution of the Alien Story

Nihilism or Wonder? On the Evolution of the Alien Story

Investigating Extraterrestrial Metaphors for Communism, Religion, Love & Art

By Emily Harnett | April 19, 2017

A Political Conversion on the Way to a Novel

A Political Conversion on the Way to a Novel

Margot Singer on Rediscovering Post-9/11 Complexity

By Margot Singer | April 18, 2017

Louise Glück on Realism and Fantasy

Louise Glück on Realism and Fantasy

"The fantastic exists as hypothesis and dream."

By Louise Gluck | April 18, 2017

Some of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Best Characters Were Dead People

Some of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Best Characters Were Dead People

On Love, Death, and Life in the Work of a Master

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 17, 2017

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Race is the Original American Fiction

By Andrew Mitchell Davenport | April 13, 2017

In Defense of Worldbuilding

By Emily Temple | April 10, 2017

The Uncanny Magic of Joy Williams, in a Single Paragraph

By Vincent Scarpa | April 7, 2017

Is Your Name Your Destiny?

Is Your Name Your Destiny?

On the Intrinsic Power of What People Call (and Miscall) You

By Catherine Buni | April 3, 2017

I Love <em>The Great Gatsby</em>, Even if it Doesn't Love Me Back

I Love The Great Gatsby, Even if it Doesn't Love Me Back

On Difficult Characters and the Unbearable Whiteness of Classic Literature

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If Fiction Changes the World, It's Going to Be YA

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the kids aren’t just all right—they’re better than us

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<em>Get Out</em>, Claudia Rankine, and the Horror of Black Hypervisibility

Get Out, Claudia Rankine, and the Horror of Black Hypervisibility

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The Future: Where Sexual Ambivalence Meets Sexual Gentrification

The Future: Where Sexual Ambivalence Meets Sexual Gentrification

On Polyamory, Silicon Valley, and the Investigations of Emily Witt

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When Femininity is Code for Feelings

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On Failure, Motherhood, and Flightless Birds

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Rebecca Solnit on Silence, Pornography, and Feminist Literature

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