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The Art of War: How Can a Book Written Two and a Half Millennia Ago Remain Timeless?

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

Shannon McLeod on the Emotional Stability of Flash Fiction and Uncertainty of Novel Writing

The Books We Need Now: A Reading List of Heroines Who Are Hot Messes

Sabrina Orah Mark on Fairy Tales Designed to Wake Us Up

13 Adaptations Better Than the Books They’re Based On

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“It Was All in the Service of Not Wanting Queer People to Have to Justify Themselves.” Why Catherine Lacey Rewrote History in Biography of X

Alone on the Range: Victor LaValle on Lone Women’s Homesteaders, History, and Horror

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Daisy Jones & the Six Balances Authenticity and Fantasy

What Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener” Tells Us About Memory Loss

A Pathless Wood: Navigating the Poetic Border Between Health and Harm

Catherine Lacey on Playing the Long-Game for Her Fiction

The End of Desire: Christiane Blot-Labarrère on Marguerite Duras’s No More

More To Be Shaped By: Searching for Black Nature Writing

“The Power is Not Going to Be Static.” Madelaine Lucas on Adding Nuance to the May-December Cliché

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