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Pedro Páramo">"Bitterness Incarnate:" Douglas J. Weatherford on Juan Rulfo's Pedro Páramo

"The text vacillates between presence and absence, between reality and irreality, and even between life and death."

By Douglas J. Weatherford | September 27, 2023

Hermione Lee on Mavis Gallant,

Hermione Lee on Mavis Gallant, "Unerring Stylist"

"A writer for whom nothing is alien and everything is possible"

By Hermione Lee | September 26, 2023

Elisa Gabbert and Michael Joseph Walsh on Rilke's <em>The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge</em>

Elisa Gabbert and Michael Joseph Walsh on Rilke's The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

In Conversation with Catherine Nichols on the Lit Century Podcast

By Lit Century | September 26, 2023

New Homelands: Alexander Chee on Lan Samantha Chang's <em>Hunger</em>

New Homelands: Alexander Chee on Lan Samantha Chang's Hunger

"It is a wise book, for the way it is full of the sorts of mistakes people make and cannot take back."

By Alexander Chee | September 25, 2023

Another Possible World: Jen Silverman on Imagining Dystopias and Utopias

Another Possible World: Jen Silverman on Imagining Dystopias and Utopias

"What better future can we believe in, so that it can be made?"

By Jen Silverman | September 25, 2023

Marsha Gordon on Ursula Parrott's Fascinating Life

Marsha Gordon on Ursula Parrott's Fascinating Life

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | September 25, 2023

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

By Book Marks | September 22, 2023

Ross Gay: In Praise of (Foot- End- Etc.) Notes

By Ross Gay | September 21, 2023

Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko on How Artists Are Responding to the War in Ukraine

By Fiction Non Fiction | September 21, 2023

Kristi Coulter on Being Inside Amazon in the Early Days

Kristi Coulter on Being Inside Amazon in the Early Days

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | September 21, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"Her book has promised universal absolution and universal absolution it must deliver."

By Book Marks | September 21, 2023

The Politics of Chronic Illness Memoirs

The Politics of Chronic Illness Memoirs

"They show a broader human urge to understand the bodies we live in, especially when they falter."

By Kate Roberts | September 19, 2023

The Marvelous Real: Leonardo Padura on Alejo Carpentier's <em>The Lost Steps</em>

The Marvelous Real: Leonardo Padura on Alejo Carpentier's The Lost Steps

"Art entails a kind of knowledge that is undoubtedly transcendent in character. And yet art must be, is, something more."

By Leonardo Padura | September 18, 2023

James Shapiro on Shakespeare and America

James Shapiro on Shakespeare and America

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | September 18, 2023

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

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

Featuring New Titles by Lauren Groff, Naomi Klein, James Ellroy, and More

By Book Marks | September 15, 2023

Committing to the High Romance of <em>The Notebook</em>

Committing to the High Romance of The Notebook

Annie Berke on Pre-Ken Ryan Gosling and the Campless Excess of the 2004 Adaptation

By Annie Berke | September 15, 2023

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