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“I settled on simple capital letters, like Scrabble squares.”

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Between Two Cities: Shubha Sunder on Finding a Place in Fiction

Between Two Cities: Shubha Sunder on Finding a Place in Fiction

“Boston and Bangalore don’t live within me in hermetically sealed compartments; rather, they permeate each other.”

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Lucinda Williams Recalls the Turbulence of Growing Up With a Sick Mother

Lucinda Williams Recalls the Turbulence of Growing Up With a Sick Mother

“Your mother’s not well, don’t be mad at your mother.”

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Simple, Sparse and Profound: David Sexton on Kazuo Ishiguro’s <em>Never Let Me Go</em>

Simple, Sparse and Profound: David Sexton on Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go

“What this book is about is ordinary, normal and everyday, the knowledge that we are mortal...”

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Finding Words in the Kitchen (Or: How I Stopped Hating Myself and Started Cooking)

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Diksha Basu on Rediscovering the Food of Her Youth

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Searching for Sacred Landscapes: On Finding the Sublime in Solitude

Searching for Sacred Landscapes: On Finding the Sublime in Solitude

James Canton Explores the Unity of the Natural and the Human Throughout the Ages

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Brian Dillon Considers the Restless Geometry of Blind Spots

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