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Clare Beams on Women's Bodies and the Power of Names

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What to Leave In, What to Leave Out: My Conversations with David Foster Wallace

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Adrienne Miller on Literary Life in the 1990s

By Adrienne Miller | February 11, 2020

A Novel That Celebrates—and Mourns—Pre-Revolutionary Iran

A Novel That Celebrates—and Mourns—Pre-Revolutionary Iran

Dina Nayeri on Javad Djavaher's My Part of Her

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Leila Aboulela: Novels About the Soul Come in Disguise

Leila Aboulela: Novels About the Soul Come in Disguise

Five Books With a Decidedly Mystical Dimension

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Failsafe Reading Recommendations for Your Non-Reader Friend in Need

Failsafe Reading Recommendations for Your Non-Reader Friend in Need

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Caitlin Doughty Performs a Passage From Her Latest <em>Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?</em>

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Does Bong Joon-Ho’s Historic Oscar Win Signal Real Change for the Academy Awards?

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Olivia Rutigliano on Parasite, Auteurship, and Who Gets to Be Called a Director in Hollywood

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The Fraught Task of Describing Life with David Foster Wallace

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Zan Romanoff on Adrienne Miller's In the Land of Men

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There is No Specific Noun for a Parent Who Has Lost a Child

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Denise Riley on the Temporal Dislocation of Profound Loss

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The Maggie Nelson Test for Lesbian Dating Success

The Maggie Nelson Test for Lesbian Dating Success

Jenn Shapland on The Argonauts and Building a Life

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We Didn't Always Pair Poets to Presidents: How Robert Frost Ended Up at JFK's Inauguration

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When Poetry Met Power in January, 1961

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On the Storylines That Kept Early Humans Alive

On the Storylines That Kept Early Humans Alive

Gaia Vince Considers the Adaptive Urgency of Storytelling

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