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People Collide

Isle McElroy


Recital of the Dark Verses

Luis Felipe Fabre (trans. Heather Cleary)


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

"I long for a book made of only endnotes."


We Need a Motherf*cking Break: On Mom Rage and the Fantasy of Joint Custody

Minna Dubin Considers the Potential Upside of Divorce


The Pole

J. M. Coetzee


On the Rothschilds’ Myth in Literature and Film

Mike Rothschild Considers the Stories Told about the Influential Jewish Family


Beyond the Door of No Return

David Diop (trans. Sam Taylor)


The Wolves of Eternity

Karl Ove Knausgaard (trans. Martin Aitken)


Nadia

Christine Evans


A Dictator Calls

Ismail Kadare (trans. John Hodgson)


A Volga Tale

Guzel Yakhina (trans. Polly Gannon)


The Vaster Wilds

Lauren Groff


How the Humble Pocket Came to Signify Feminist Liberation

Hannah Carlson Explores the History of Women's Pockets


“Blithe Spirit”

Kate Atkinson


The Remarkable Story of the Horsewomen Warriors of Afghanistan

Pardis Mahdavi on Unearthing a Story of Ferocity and Survival


Rouge

Mona Awad


Suicide Museum

Ariel Dorfman


“The Pistil”

Ben Lerner


“Out of Time’s Monotone”: The Literary Life of the French Riviera

Jonathan Miles on a Haven for Indolent Aristocracy and Creative Types Alike


My Work

Olga Ravn (trans. Sophia Hersi Smith and Jennifer Russell)


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