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Mass Incarceration Was Always Designed to Work This Way

Mass Incarceration Was Always Designed to Work This Way

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By Victoria Law | April 8, 2021

How Leonora Carrington’s Self-Portrait Helped Me Tell Her Story

How Leonora Carrington’s Self-Portrait Helped Me Tell Her Story

Michaela Carter on the Mysteries of Writing Breakthroughs

By Michaela Carter | April 8, 2021

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By We Have Ways of Making You Talk | April 8, 2021

Imaginary Histories: How Tolkien’s Fascination with Language Shaped His Literary World

Imaginary Histories: How Tolkien’s Fascination with Language Shaped His Literary World

Damien Bador on the Origins of a Fantasy Classic

By Damien Bador | April 8, 2021

Jasmine Mans on Finding Her Voice as a Spoken Word Poet

Jasmine Mans on Finding Her Voice as a Spoken Word Poet

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By Book Dreams | April 8, 2021

Janice P. Nimura: The Case for Admiring “Unlikable” Women

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Margaret Atwood on Democracy, Citizenship, and Dystopian Fiction

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Toward a Definition of Contemporary Bookselling

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Helen Oyeyemi Finds the World of Her Novel on the Train

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Meaning in the Margins: On the Literary Value of Annotation

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Wet Hot American Scammer: Revisiting the Magnificent Failure of the Fyre Festival

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Gabrielle Bluestone on Billy McFarland’s Evil Genius for Pure Hype

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