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Two Poems by Albert Goldbarth

Two Poems by Albert Goldbarth

"the mind lights up [...] / at the altruistic pleasure of building / shelters for the homeless or at easy / blowhard internet shaming of strangers"

By Albert Goldbarth | June 24, 2019

How a Single Violent Crime Tells the Story of U.S.-Japan Relations in Okinawa

How a Single Violent Crime Tells the Story of U.S.-Japan Relations in Okinawa

On the Long Shadow of American Empire

By Akemi Johnson | June 24, 2019

The Grand Cultural Influence of Octavia Butler

The Grand Cultural Influence of Octavia Butler

Happy Birthday to a Legend of Literature

By Emily Temple | June 21, 2019

Viet Thanh Nguyen on What David Wong Louie Meant to Him at 20

Viet Thanh Nguyen on What David Wong Louie Meant to Him at 20

Reading Pangs of Love and Discovering Asian American Literary Voices

By Viet Thanh Nguyen | June 21, 2019

On John Wayne, Cancel Culture, and the Art of Problematic Artists

On John Wayne, Cancel Culture, and the Art of Problematic Artists

Wrestling with the Legacy of an American Icon

By Tyler Malone | June 21, 2019

Kristen Arnett on How She Got Her Start as a Librarian

Kristen Arnett on How She Got Her Start as a Librarian

On The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

By The Literary Life | June 21, 2019

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On the Tricky Business of Creating a National Anthology: Irish Edition

By Lucy Caldwell | June 21, 2019

We're Doomed. Now What?
Roy Scranton on Climate Change

By Peter Nowogrodzki | June 21, 2019

The Comic Tragedy of a Narrator with No Sense of Self

By Danielle Dutton | June 21, 2019

Gary Shapiro, Tech Optimist, Talks to a Tech Pessimist

Gary Shapiro, Tech Optimist, Talks to a Tech Pessimist

The CEO of Consumer Technology Association in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | June 21, 2019

The Anti-Capitalist Power of Jean de La Ville de Mirmont's Fiction

The Anti-Capitalist Power of Jean de La Ville de Mirmont's Fiction

André Naffis-Sahely on His New Translation of a Long-Neglected Existentialist Novella

By André Naffis-Sahely | June 21, 2019

Vandana Singh on How Physics and Fiction Inform Each Other

Vandana Singh on How Physics and Fiction Inform Each Other

In Conversation with Rob Wolf on the New Books Network

By New Books Network | June 21, 2019

The Poet and the Monk: <br>An Anne Sexton Love Story

The Poet and the Monk:
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The Love Affair That Started with a Fan Letter

By Nick Ripatrazone | June 20, 2019

Why Does Losing a Pet Hurt So Much?

Why Does Losing a Pet Hurt So Much?

Jacky Colliss Harvey on Our Very Human Grieving of Animal Companions

By Jacky Colliss Harvey | June 20, 2019

50 of the Best One-Star Reviews of <em>The Picture of Dorian Gray</em>

50 of the Best One-Star Reviews of The Picture of Dorian Gray

"Pretentious, pedestrian, predictable, and pedantic."

By Emily Temple | June 20, 2019

Mona Awad on Horrifying Cuteness and MFA Groupthink

Mona Awad on Horrifying Cuteness and MFA Groupthink

The Author of Bunny on The Maris Review

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