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The Power of Absence: How Loss Can Help Fuel a Creative Life

The Power of Absence: How Loss Can Help Fuel a Creative Life

Sanam Mahloudji: “If I didn’t feel an absence or a sense of loss, there would be no need to write.”

By Sanam Mahloudji | March 25, 2025

A Black Avant-Garde: How Lorraine O’Grady’s Literary Artwork Fused Poetry and Politics

A Black Avant-Garde: How Lorraine O’Grady’s Literary Artwork Fused Poetry and Politics

Peter Trachtenberg Holds up the Frame to an Iconic Artist Who Redefined Being an Icon

By Peter Trachtenberg | March 25, 2025

A return to Oz! Jane Austen! Harriet Tubman! Cults! 24 new books out today.

A return to Oz! Jane Austen! Harriet Tubman! Cults! 24 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | March 25, 2025

A Small Press Book We Love: </br><em>Little Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian)</em> by Hazel Jane Plante

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Little Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante

By Drew Broussard | March 24, 2025

On Our Problematic Obsession with First-Love Stories

On Our Problematic Obsession with First-Love Stories

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Constructing Blackness: Reading My Identity in Maryse Condé’s “Segu”

Constructing Blackness: Reading My Identity in Maryse Condé’s “Segu”

Mia Fowler on Traveling to Ghana and Making Sense of Herself

By Mia Fowler | March 24, 2025

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Farid Matuk on Mirroring, Poetic Artifice, and Complicating Sensuality in Verse

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Mai Der Vang on Generational Trauma

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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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“Retribution Masquerading As Art.” Elissa Altman on the Problem with Revenge Writing

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“Does it move the story forward? Does it belong in my journal?”

By Elissa Altman | March 21, 2025

A Wordless Writer: Samina Ali on How Writing a Memoir Helped Her Brain Trauma Heal

A Wordless Writer: Samina Ali on How Writing a Memoir Helped Her Brain Trauma Heal

The Author of “Pieces You’ll Never Get Back” Reflects on the Aphasia that Forever Altered Her Life and Art

By Samina Ali | March 21, 2025

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Hollow Men: The Republican Party is Nothing More Than a Host for the Malignancies of Donald Trump

Hollow Men: The Republican Party is Nothing More Than a Host for the Malignancies of Donald Trump

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