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Why America Can’t Get Enough of <em>The Wizard of Oz</em>

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Less Matters More: Joanna Walsh on the Expansive Possibilities of the Short Story

Less Matters More: Joanna Walsh on the Expansive Possibilities of the Short Story

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Sigrid Nunez on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s <em>The Great Gatsby</em>

Sigrid Nunez on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

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Nicholson Baker on the Unsung Pleasures of the World

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In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on Thresholds

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How to Teach a Controversial Novel of Racial and Sexual Violence in 2025

How to Teach a Controversial Novel of Racial and Sexual Violence in 2025

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Rav Grewal-Kök on the Enduring Literary Legacy of an Undisputed Master of the Spy Novel

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Against Homophobic Traditionalism: The Revelations of Writing Queer Historical Fiction

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Finding Briseis: On Resurrecting a Forgotten Woman from Homer’s <em>Iliad</em>

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