How an Irish Syntactical Peculiarity Helped Me Find My Protagonist’s Voice

How an Irish Syntactical Peculiarity Helped Me Find My Protagonist’s Voice

Kia Corthron on the Challenges of Dialect in Historical Fiction

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Chronicle of a Death Foretold: On War, Reincarnation, and the Changing Names of Myanmar

Chronicle of a Death Foretold: On War, Reincarnation, and the Changing Names of Myanmar

Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint Finds Connections With Her Great-Grandfather

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Steven Nadler and Lawrence Shapiro on the Global Epidemic of Irrational Thinking

Steven Nadler and Lawrence Shapiro on the Global Epidemic of Irrational Thinking

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | August 27, 2021

Jose Hernandez Diaz on the Surrealism of Prose Poetry

Jose Hernandez Diaz on the Surrealism of Prose Poetry

This Week from The Common Podcast

By The Common | August 27, 2021

Matt Bell in Praise of Genre Agnosticism

Matt Bell in Praise of Genre Agnosticism

In Conversation with Gabrielle Mathieu on the New Books Network Podcast

By New Books Network | August 27, 2021

Patricia Engel on the Natural Human Instinct to Migrate

Patricia Engel on the Natural Human Instinct to Migrate

In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast

By The Literary Life | August 27, 2021

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On Land, Community, and Celebration in the Historic All-Black Towns of Oklahoma

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Hanif Abdurraqib on Pushing the Boundaries of Friendship

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