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How 19th-Century Gun-Makers Helped Preserve the Union

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Kim Kelly on How to Fix the Working Conditions in Book Publishing

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

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Messing With All of It: Poets Rodrigo Toscano and Sandra Simonds Talk Politics, Poetics, Work, and Class

Messing With All of It: Poets Rodrigo Toscano and Sandra Simonds Talk Politics, Poetics, Work, and Class

“Poems don’t have to self-flagellate to be meaningful. That seems very Puritanical. Too American.”

By Sandra Simonds and Rodrigo Toscano | June 2, 2022

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“This is Such Bullshit.” Shelly Oria and Kristen Arnett on the Reproductive Rights Crisis

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

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It’s a Man’s Art World: The Centuries-Long Struggle of the Leading Lady in <em>Rocco and His Brothers</em>

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Phil Klay: “Killing a Guy is Not the Same as Having a Coherent Military Policy.”

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On Jazmina Barrera’s <em>Linea Nigra</em> and the Untranslatable Experiences of Motherhood

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