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The Books We Need Now: A Reading List of Heroines Who Are Hot Messes

The Books We Need Now: A Reading List of Heroines Who Are Hot Messes

Justine Sullivan Recommends Meg Mason, Nikki May, and more

By Justine Sullivan | March 24, 2023

Sabrina Orah Mark on Fairy Tales Designed to Wake Us Up

Sabrina Orah Mark on Fairy Tales Designed to Wake Us Up

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 24, 2023

13 Adaptations Better Than the Books They’re Based On

13 Adaptations Better Than the Books They’re Based On

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By Emily Temple | March 23, 2023

“It Was All in the Service of Not Wanting Queer People to Have to Justify Themselves.” Why Catherine Lacey Rewrote History in <em>Biography of X</em>

“It Was All in the Service of Not Wanting Queer People to Have to Justify Themselves.” Why Catherine Lacey Rewrote History in Biography of X

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | March 23, 2023

Alone on the Range: Victor LaValle on <em>Lone Women</em>’s Homesteaders, History, and Horror

Alone on the Range: Victor LaValle on Lone Women’s Homesteaders, History, and Horror

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | March 23, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"A kind of writing so rare and accomplished that it seems to erase the very nuts and bolts of its own construction"

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What Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” Tells Us About Memory Loss

By Dasha Kiper | March 23, 2023

A Pathless Wood: Navigating the Poetic Border Between Health and Harm

By James Davis May | March 23, 2023

Julia Samuel on Transgenerational Trauma and Family Well-Being

Julia Samuel on Transgenerational Trauma and Family Well-Being

In Conversation with Roxanne Coady on Just the Right Book

By Just the Right Book | March 23, 2023

Catherine Lacey on Playing the Long-Game for Her Fiction

Catherine Lacey on Playing the Long-Game for Her Fiction

“I’m making a body of work over a lifetime.”

By Literary Hub | March 23, 2023

The End of Desire: Christiane Blot-Labarrère on Marguerite Duras’s <em>No More</em>

The End of Desire: Christiane Blot-Labarrère on Marguerite Duras’s No More

"The sentiment of never more—this is the labyrinth in which language helplessly tries to beguile death."

By Christiane Blot-Labarrère | March 22, 2023

More To Be Shaped By: Searching for Black Nature Writing

More To Be Shaped By: Searching for Black Nature Writing

Erin Sharkey on Decolonizing the Wild Experience

By Erin Sharkey | March 22, 2023

“The Power is Not Going to Be Static.” Madelaine Lucas on Adding Nuance to the May-December Cliché

“The Power is Not Going to Be Static.” Madelaine Lucas on Adding Nuance to the May-December Cliché

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | March 22, 2023

Min Jin Lee on the Relationship Between Language and Power

Min Jin Lee on the Relationship Between Language and Power

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By Julia Kovalenko | March 22, 2023

Multicultural London: A Reading List of Displacement, Diaspora, and Diversity

Multicultural London: A Reading List of Displacement, Diaspora, and Diversity

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