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Ross Gay: In Praise of (Foot- End- Etc.) Notes

Ross Gay: In Praise of (Foot- End- Etc.) Notes

"I long for a book made of only endnotes."

By Ross Gay | September 21, 2023

Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko on How Artists Are Responding to the War in Ukraine

Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko on How Artists Are Responding to the War in Ukraine

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | September 21, 2023

Kristi Coulter on Being Inside Amazon in the Early Days

Kristi Coulter on Being Inside Amazon in the Early Days

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | September 21, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"Her book has promised universal absolution and universal absolution it must deliver."

By Book Marks | September 21, 2023

The Politics of Chronic Illness Memoirs

The Politics of Chronic Illness Memoirs

"They show a broader human urge to understand the bodies we live in, especially when they falter."

By Kate Roberts | September 19, 2023

The Marvelous Real: Leonardo Padura on Alejo Carpentier's <em>The Lost Steps</em>

The Marvelous Real: Leonardo Padura on Alejo Carpentier's The Lost Steps

"Art entails a kind of knowledge that is undoubtedly transcendent in character. And yet art must be, is, something more."

By Leonardo Padura | September 18, 2023

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James Shapiro on Shakespeare and America

By History of Literature | September 18, 2023

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

By Book Marks | September 15, 2023

Committing to the High Romance of The Notebook

By Annie Berke | September 15, 2023

A Lot of Pain and A Lot of Humor: Ottessa Moshfegh on Dinah Brooke's <em>Lord Jim at Home</em>

A Lot of Pain and A Lot of Humor: Ottessa Moshfegh on Dinah Brooke's Lord Jim at Home

"I didn’t care, and I didn’t worry, but I was suspended, consistently and dramatically, in the mirage of the novel."

By Ottessa Moshfegh | September 14, 2023

John Manuel Arias on Living With and Writing Ghosts

John Manuel Arias on Living With and Writing Ghosts

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | September 14, 2023

Leila Aboulela on the Coups in Africa

Leila Aboulela on the Coups in Africa

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | September 14, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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"There’s a whiff of desperate masculinity floating through the book, as rank as a Pretoria boys’ locker room"

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On the Enduring Popularity of Marvel's <em>Fantastic Four</em>

On the Enduring Popularity of Marvel's Fantastic Four

"The fact that the stories and characters that made me a reader as a kid are still as prevalent today just goes to show how truly fantastic they still are."

By Jerry Craft | September 13, 2023

Drifting Along the Current: On the 10th Anniversary of <em>Self-Portrait in Green</em>

Drifting Along the Current: On the 10th Anniversary of Self-Portrait in Green

Jordan Stump On Translating Marie NDiaye

By Jordan Stump | September 12, 2023

Conquest and Care in Antarctica: On Climate Stories that Complicate the Narrative

Conquest and Care in Antarctica: On Climate Stories that Complicate the Narrative

Michaela Cavanagh Reads Elizabeth Rush's The Quickening

By Michaela Cavanagh | September 11, 2023

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