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How I Learned to Love the Weird, From Octavia Butler to Kelly Link

How I Learned to Love the Weird, From Octavia Butler to Kelly Link

Brian Francis Slattery Finds a Home in the Strange and Unsettling

By Brian Francis Slattery | April 21, 2017

Nihilism or Wonder? On the Evolution of the Alien Story

Nihilism or Wonder? On the Evolution of the Alien Story

Investigating Extraterrestrial Metaphors for Communism, Religion, Love & Art

By Emily Harnett | April 19, 2017

A Political Conversion on the Way to a Novel

A Political Conversion on the Way to a Novel

Margot Singer on Rediscovering Post-9/11 Complexity

By Margot Singer | April 18, 2017

Louise Glück on Realism and Fantasy

Louise Glück on Realism and Fantasy

"The fantastic exists as hypothesis and dream."

By Louise Gluck | April 18, 2017

Some of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Best Characters Were Dead People

Some of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Best Characters Were Dead People

On Love, Death, and Life in the Work of a Master

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 17, 2017

Race is the Original American Fiction

Race is the Original American Fiction

On Reuniting with The Descendants of Thomas Jefferson's Slaves

By Andrew Mitchell Davenport | April 13, 2017

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By Emily Temple | April 10, 2017

The Uncanny Magic of Joy Williams, in a Single Paragraph

By Vincent Scarpa | April 7, 2017

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I Love <em>The Great Gatsby</em>, Even if it Doesn't Love Me Back

I Love The Great Gatsby, Even if it Doesn't Love Me Back

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If Fiction Changes the World, It's Going to Be YA

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the kids aren’t just all right—they’re better than us

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<em>Get Out</em>, Claudia Rankine, and the Horror of Black Hypervisibility

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Rebecca Solnit on Silence, Pornography, and Feminist Literature

Rebecca Solnit on Silence, Pornography, and Feminist Literature

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Trump in a Toga? On the Lessons (or Lack Therof) in Historical Fiction

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