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Lydia Millet on the Lack of Empathetic Characters in Fiction

Ross Gay in Praise of Kurosawa’s Dreams and Making Beautiful (and Un-Beautiful) Things

WATCH: Billy-Ray Belcourt Discusses His Debut Novel, A Minor Chorus

Ingrid Rojas Contreras on What’s Gained by Losing Language

On the Ethics of Writing About Social Issues (While Minimizing Harm)

The Annotated Nightstand: What Ross Gay is Reading Now and Next

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