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“Do I Want to Spend the Next Seven Years Thinking About One White Dude?” Jac Jemc on Writing About Iconic Royal Cousins

Mai Nardone’s Unvarnished Fictional Truths About Life in Contemporary Thailand

BookTok is Good, Actually: On the Undersung Joys of a Vast and Multifarious Platform

Ann Beattie Wonders What Donald Barthelme Would Have Made of the Spy Balloon

Five Surreal Works of Fiction You Probably Haven’t Read... and Slaughterhouse-Five

Why Harlem? Considering the Site of “Civil Rights by Copyright,” 100 Years Later

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Dr. Tara A. Bynum Considers Four Canonical Black Writers from the 18th and Early 19th Centuries

Kathryn Ma on Portraying Asian-Americans Positively and the “Messiness That is Life in Any Community”

In Knock at the Cabin, M. Night Shyamalan’s Twist is the Lack of a Twist

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Helen Sword on the Physicality of Language

The Strangest Things Are the Truest: Laline Paull on Channeling a Dolphin’s Narrative Voice

The Annotated Nightstand: What José Olivarez is Reading Now and Next

How Does It Feel Different to Develop a Voice For a Story Versus a Novel?

Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀ on Capturing What it Means to Live in Contemporary Nigeria

The Coming-of-Age Tale As Societal Critique: Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar at 60

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