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Double, Double: On the Unsettling Power of Doppelganger Stories

The Annotated Nightstand: What Ishion Hutchinson Is Reading Now, and Next

“She Is Not Me.” What Reading to Your Children Teaches You About Yourself

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Among the Ash Heaps and Millionaires: How The Great Gatsby Changed the Landscape of New York City

A Love Song to the Philippines: The Revolutionary Power of Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters

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Fictionalizing Family: On What’s True and What’s Invented About Our Origins

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Must the Professor Crusade? W. Ralph Eubanks on the Connection Between Black Writing and Black Resistance

The Poet of the Revolution: Read Newly Translated Work by One of Egypt’s Most Prominent Poets, Mostafa Ibrahim

Marguerite Sheffer on Crafting a Collection of Century-Spanning Speculative Fiction

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Ann Patchett on Annotating Her Award-Winning Novel Bel Canto Twenty Years Later

On Understanding and Capturing the Horrors of War and Fascism

Kathryn Davis Couldn’t Live Without Musicals and Writes Fiction Like a Piano Player (and Other Tidbits)

On Poetry as Historical Record, the Legacy of Colonialism, and Depicting Disaster in Verse

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