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Charles Simic on One of the Great Holocaust Novels of Yugoslavia

Charles Simic on One of the Great Holocaust Novels of Yugoslavia

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By Charles Simic | February 16, 2016

I Was The Most Wanted Man in China

I Was The Most Wanted Man in China

How Scientist Fang Lizhi became an Enemy of the State

By Fang Lizhi | February 11, 2016

Remembering the Storyteller of Damascus, Before the War

Remembering the Storyteller of Damascus, Before the War

Michelle Hoover, and in a Syria That Once Was

By Michelle Hoover | February 5, 2016

How I Accidentally Wrote a Civil War Novel

How I Accidentally Wrote a Civil War Novel

New Stories Born from the Oldest Ballads

By Taylor Brown | February 3, 2016

You Don’t Have to Be a Veteran to Write About War

You Don’t Have to Be a Veteran to Write About War

Matt Gallagher on the Difference Between Experience and Authority

By Matt Gallagher | February 2, 2016

Emotional Truths and Historical Lies in the Shadow of the Great War

Emotional Truths and Historical Lies in the Shadow of the Great War

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