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My Year of Reading Every Ursula K. Le Guin Novel

My Year of Reading Every Ursula K. Le Guin Novel

Susan DeFreitas on the Lessons of Le Guin During a Pandemic

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The Rapturous Love of Patricia Highsmith’s <em>Carol</em>

The Rapturous Love of Patricia Highsmith’s Carol

A Classic Review of Highsmith’s Groundbreaking Lesbian Romance Originally Published as The Price of Salt in 1952

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Charles J. Shields on the Profound and Playful Friendship Between Lorraine Hansberry and James Baldwin

Charles J. Shields on the Profound and Playful Friendship Between Lorraine Hansberry and James Baldwin

“Baldwin loved her caustic wit.”

By Charles J. Shields | January 19, 2022

20 Famous Writers on Being Rejected

20 Famous Writers on Being Rejected

"The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so."

By Emily Temple | January 19, 2022

My Little Drug Story: David Sanchez on (Begrudgingly) Turning to Autofiction

My Little Drug Story: David Sanchez on (Begrudgingly) Turning to Autofiction

On Addiction Tropes, “Grittiness,” and the Freedom to Focus on Ideas

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Elizabeth McCracken on <em>Anna Karenina</em>, Yiyun Li, and Hating <em>The Velveteen Rabbit</em>

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Jeffrey C. Stewart on the Genesis of Alain Locke’s Transformative “New Negro Aesthetic”

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Tom Lutz of <em>Los Angeles Review of Books</em> on Criticism in the 21st Century

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