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Repeat After Me: “I Am Not the Great American Novelist.”

Repeat After Me: “I Am Not the Great American Novelist.”

Michael Bourne on What It Really Means to Accept Failure

By Michael Bourne | July 8, 2022

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Visions of Jane Eyre: On Mothers, Labor, and the Places Children Hide

Visions of Jane Eyre: On Mothers, Labor, and the Places Children Hide

these are my children or this is my country, but we’re only fooling ourselves."">Lesley Jenike: "We might say these are my children or this is my country, but we’re only fooling ourselves."

By Lesley Jenike | July 8, 2022

Eight Books That’ll Help You Ask Braver Questions of Yourself

Eight Books That’ll Help You Ask Braver Questions of Yourself

Jenna Kutcher on the Literature of Empowerment

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Katherine Angel on Valerie Solanas, Bad Dads, and the Literary Pleasures of Pure Rage

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Merve Emre on Cristina Rivera Garza, James Wood on Jean Rhys, Alan Light on George Michael, and More

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“He Gives Us Back Our Wonder.” Tarell Alvin McCraney on the Work of Randall Kenan

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Remembering the Late Writer's Embrace of Curiosity

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Writing Advice from Rachel Yoder: Take a Break, Hug a Tree

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On the Most Ambitious Literary Podcast in the History of the World

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Reading Mahfouz: Egyptian Literature Between Old and New, Freedom and Censorship

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