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Why Play At All? On Perfectionism, Perseverance and Prodigies

Why Play At All? On Perfectionism, Perseverance and Prodigies

Lauren Aliza Green Reconsiders Her Abandonment of the Violin

By Lauren Aliza Green | July 2, 2024

Craig Willse on the Difference Between Feeling Powerless and Powerlessness

Craig Willse on the Difference Between Feeling Powerless and Powerlessness

In Conversation with Lindsay Hunter on I'm a Writer But  

By I'm a Writer But | July 2, 2024

Dragon Heists and Choose-Your-Own-Futures: July’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Dragon Heists and Choose-Your-Own-Futures: July’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Summer stunners from Peng Shepherd, Aliette de Bodard, and China Miéville and Keanu Reeves

By Natalie Zutter | July 1, 2024

Gravity and Grace: What Becoming a Nurse Teaches You About Being a Poet

Gravity and Grace: What Becoming a Nurse Teaches You About Being a Poet

Dorinda Wegener on Channeling Her Creative Empathy and Curiosity Into the Medical Field

By Dorinda Wegener | July 1, 2024

The Making of Home: On Space, Scarcity, and the Production of Diasporic Aesthetics

The Making of Home: On Space, Scarcity, and the Production of Diasporic Aesthetics

Simon Wu: “Objects were made to live multiple lives, so that our life—this life, not the next one—would be perfect.”

By Simon Wu | July 1, 2024

Bamboo Wives, Biddle City, Coachella, and Cyberspace: Six Poetry Collections to Read in July

Bamboo Wives, Biddle City, Coachella, and Cyberspace: Six Poetry Collections to Read in July

Rebecca Morgan Frank Recommends Marianne Chan, Nicole Cooley, Alan Felsenthal, and Others

By Rebecca Morgan Frank | July 1, 2024

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Blood-Soaked Handkerchiefs and Burnt Dresses: The Lizzie Borden Trial, as Told in a Newspaper of the Time

By Elizabeth Garver Jordan | July 1, 2024

On Co-Writing, Belonging, and Punishing Your Characters: Eve Gleichman and Laura Blackett in Conversation

By Literary Hub | July 1, 2024

Rachel Khong on How Big Questions Inform Fiction

By Memoir Nation | July 1, 2024

Tommy Orange on the Unconscious

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By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | July 1, 2024

June’s Best Reviewed Nonfiction

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Featuring Griffin Dunne, Joni Mitchell, Olivia Laing, and More

By Book Marks | June 28, 2024

June’s Best Reviewed Fiction

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What We Can Learn From the Boy Scouts of America’s Fight For LGBTQ+ Equality

What We Can Learn From the Boy Scouts of America’s Fight For LGBTQ+ Equality

Mike De Socio on the Legal and Cultural Battle for Queer Rights and Recognition Within an All-American Institution

By Mike De Socio | June 28, 2024

Julia Phillips on the Writing Lessons of Fairy Tales

Julia Phillips on the Writing Lessons of Fairy Tales

"Close the circle—even if your characters suffer, your readers will remember it."

By Julia Phillips | June 28, 2024

AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of June

AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of June

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By Audiofile Magazine | June 28, 2024

“Instructions for the Lovers.” A Poem by Dawn Lundy Martin

“Instructions for the Lovers.” A Poem by Dawn Lundy Martin

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