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How My Friend Hilary Mantel Got Inside People's Minds

How My Friend Hilary Mantel Got Inside People's Minds

Miranda Miller on What Mantel Believed Was a Novelist's True Business

By Miranda Miller | August 16, 2023

On Drinking, the Devil, and <em>Paradise Lost</em>

On Drinking, the Devil, and Paradise Lost

Ed Simon Searches for Milton's Grave While Getting Blackout Drunk in Pubs

By Ed Simon | August 15, 2023

How Performances of <em>Othello</em> Can Spotlight White Supremacy, Past and Present

How Performances of Othello Can Spotlight White Supremacy, Past and Present

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By Farah Karim-Cooper | August 15, 2023

What I Saw of Motherhood and Climate in Antarctica

What I Saw of Motherhood and Climate in Antarctica

Elizabeth Rush Discusses Her New Book With Kerri Arsenault

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Mike Palindrome on F. Scott Fitzgerald's Masterpiece

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Nine Novellas For Our Current Age of Distraction

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How Scientific and Technological Breakthroughs Created a New Kind of Fiction

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Exploring Literary New Orleans

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Problems Plus Time: What Creates a Dystopia, Real or Imagined

Problems Plus Time: What Creates a Dystopia, Real or Imagined

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In Praise of

In Praise of "Spicy Interpretation": On the Pleasure of Unexpected Translations and Explanations

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