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“I Tried To Be Witness to Him.” Sebastian Barry on Writing Characters That Have Survived Trauma

“I Tried To Be Witness to Him.” Sebastian Barry on Writing Characters That Have Survived Trauma

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

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David Quammen’s Conservationist Manifesto From Landscapes of Wonder, Peril and Hope

David Quammen’s Conservationist Manifesto From Landscapes of Wonder, Peril and Hope

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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Alexander Chee Recommends Natalia Ginzburg’s Novella <em>Valentino</em>

Alexander Chee Recommends Natalia Ginzburg’s Novella Valentino

“A story as devastating as it is hilarious.”

By Alexander Chee | June 5, 2023

Erotic Writer and Eponym of Sadism: How Marquis de Sade Became the Scandalizing Writer He Was

Erotic Writer and Eponym of Sadism: How Marquis de Sade Became the Scandalizing Writer He Was

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | June 5, 2023

Jared Fishman on the Murder of Henry Glover by Police After Hurricane Katrina

Jared Fishman on the Murder of Henry Glover by Police After Hurricane Katrina

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | June 5, 2023

Kate Strasdin Talks Fashion, Fabric, and Femininity in 19th-Century England

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“We carry inside us a theater, a library, a storehouse of quotidian detail that becomes heroic and eternal by the force of our art.”

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Elliot Ackerman imagines an America of President Al Gore in Which There is Technology That Can Resurrect Dead People

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André Naffis-Sahely on the Power of Time, Temporality, and Memory

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Peter Mishler Talks to the Author of High Desert

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As Seen on TV: Charlotte Gill on Adjusting to American Life

As Seen on TV: Charlotte Gill on Adjusting to American Life

“I learned that shame lived in the silence.”

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