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The Role of Librarians in a Historical Age of Obsession

The Role of Librarians in a Historical Age of Obsession

Mark Purcell on European Bibliomania and Libraries in the 18th and 19th Centuries

By Mark Purcell | October 18, 2019

Global Stories That Have Expanded the “Great American” Literary Canon

Global Stories That Have Expanded the “Great American” Literary Canon

A Short Survey of the Last 90 Years

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Panic is Worse Than Pain: How Fiction Failed Me After Trauma

Panic is Worse Than Pain: How Fiction Failed Me After Trauma

Jenn Ashworth on the Aftereffects of Surgery

By Jenn Ashworth | October 18, 2019

Yang-Sze Choo on the Confucian Virtues and Man's Transformation Into Beast

Yang-Sze Choo on the Confucian Virtues and Man's Transformation Into Beast

The Author of The Night Tiger Speaks to Gabrielle Mathieu on
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By New Books Network | October 18, 2019

Daphne Kalotay on American Intervention in Afghanistan and Civilian Responsibility

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How Beth Brant Uplifted the Voices of Native American Queer Women

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Tim O'Brien: Where is Our Allegiance to the “Toneless Dead”?

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John Hodgman on Life as a Very Minor Television Personality

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Nnedi Okorafor on Writing <em>and</em> Narrating the Audiobook of Her Memoir

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The Author of Broken Places and Outer Spaces in Conversation with AudioFile's Emily Connelly

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The Connie Brothers Era: 45 Years at the Iowa Writers' Workshop

The Connie Brothers Era: 45 Years at the Iowa Writers' Workshop

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