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On Slaughterhouse-Five, the “Ultimate PTSD Novel”

How Philip Roth Taught Me To Write—And Heal

“It Will Outrage As Many Readers As It Delights.” On Joseph Heller’s Catch-22

Eley Williams on Classic Ghost Stories and Goodnight Moon as Avant-Garde Horror

Jasmine Warga on the Relationship Between Language and Her Hyphenated Identity

Strangeness, Uncanniness, Eeriness: This Year at the Festival Neue Literatur

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Myriam J.A. Chancy on the Intimate Power and Purpose of Fiction

A close reading of an infamous poem on grief: Anne Sexton's "The Truth the Dead Know."

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How Collaborating With Artificial Intelligence Could Help Writers of the Future

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“Every Page Holds an Answer.” Lily King on Shirley Hazzard’s The Evening of the Holiday

“People Wanted Stories About How Hard It Was to Be a Woman.” Marlowe Granados on Resisting Market Trends

How 1,001 Nights Opened Paths to Infinite Story Possibility

On the History and Impact of the Groundbreaking Game Tetris

Finding Friendship in Pandemic Collaboration

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