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Five Books That Show What Life Is Really Like In the Middle East

Five Books That Show What Life Is Really Like In the Middle East

Sola Mahfouz and Malaina Kapoor Recommend Hisham Matar, Naguib Mahfouz, and More

By Sola Mahfouz and Malaina Kapoor | July 21, 2023

Time Out of Mind: On the Ahistorical Cinematic Adaptation

Time Out of Mind: On the Ahistorical Cinematic Adaptation

A 1973 Bruno Schulz Adaptation Goes (Temporally) Beyond Its Source Material—and It’s Not Alone

By Tobias Carroll | July 21, 2023

Michael Connelly on His Path to the Top of the Crime Fiction World

Michael Connelly on His Path to the Top of the Crime Fiction World

The Author of Desert Star Talks to Ona Russell in the New Season of Authors in the Tent

By Authors in the Tent | July 20, 2023

Mikki Kendall Remembers the Indelible Work and Full Complexity of bell hooks

Mikki Kendall Remembers the Indelible Work and Full Complexity of bell hooks

“Creating for more than the white gaze or the male gaze was the goal.”

By Mikki Kendall | July 20, 2023

Sarah Rose Etter on Tech Companies, NDAs, and the Precarity of a Job

Sarah Rose Etter on Tech Companies, NDAs, and the Precarity of a Job

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | July 20, 2023

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Why America’s Blood-Sucking Lords of Silicon Valley Want to Live Forever

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By Fiction Non Fiction | July 20, 2023

You Have to Embrace the Doubt Before You Can Claim Your Authority as a Writer

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Nishanth Injam on Leaving India, the Misery of Tech Work and the Subversive Nature of Memories

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Colson Whitehead on Blaxploitation Cinema, Sidney Lumet’s New York, and His Own Harlem Trilogy

Colson Whitehead on Blaxploitation Cinema, Sidney Lumet’s New York, and His Own Harlem Trilogy

The Author of Crook Manifesto Discusses the Latest Installment of his Sweeping Crime History of New York City.

By Dwyer Murphy | July 19, 2023

Essie Fox Reads From <em>The Fascination</em>

Essie Fox Reads From The Fascination

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24 new books out today.

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Borges Dealt With His Anxiety About Going Blind by Learning a New Language

Borges Dealt With His Anxiety About Going Blind by Learning a New Language

Andrew Leland on His Own Weakening Vision, Braille, and Making a Commitment to Read with Visual Aids

By Andrew Leland | July 18, 2023

How Syrian Writer Khaled Khalifa Navigates Exile Abroad and At Home

How Syrian Writer Khaled Khalifa Navigates Exile Abroad and At Home

Alfred J. Naddaff Spends 72 Hours in Zurich With the Chronicler of Modern Syria

By Alfred J. Naddaff | July 18, 2023

Hiding In Plain Sight: Patrick Gale on the Life and Work of Poet Charles Causley

Hiding In Plain Sight: Patrick Gale on the Life and Work of Poet Charles Causley

“Only then did I reread the poems, to see how they might be transformed by the things I had learned.”

By Patrick Gale | July 18, 2023

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