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Why Are So Many Fictional Teens <br>Entering Cults?

Why Are So Many Fictional Teens
Entering Cults?

Katherine Cusumano on Their (Our?) Search for Answers

By Katherine Cusumano | April 15, 2019

Why More People Should Read This Danish Masterpiece

Why More People Should Read This Danish Masterpiece

Garth Risk Hallberg on Lucky Per, the Great Scandinavian Novel

By Garth Risk Hallberg | April 15, 2019

The CIA Scheme That Brought <br><em>Doctor Zhivago</em> to The World

The CIA Scheme That Brought
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It Went All the Way to the Top

By Rebecca Renner | April 12, 2019

How Ramona Quimby Helps Kids Make Sense of This Unstable World

How Ramona Quimby Helps Kids Make Sense of This Unstable World

Rachel Richardson on the Genius of Beverly Cleary

By Rachel Richardson | April 12, 2019

Let's All Stop Pigeonholing Sally Rooney as a

Let's All Stop Pigeonholing Sally Rooney as a "Millennial Writer"

Even If We Agree She's a Great One

By Emily Temple | April 10, 2019

What Do We Really Mean By<br> 'Women's Fiction'?

What Do We Really Mean By
'Women's Fiction'?

Rachel Howard Recommends 6 Essays on the Gendering of Books

By Rachel Howard | April 10, 2019

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Falling in Love with Malcolm X—and His Mastery of Metaphor

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Annie Proulx on Freewheeling
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Rachel Vorona Cote: "It can be dangerous to hold someone, fictional or real, in esteem for superficial reasons."

By Rachel Vorona Cote | April 8, 2019

Your Surrealist Literature Starter Kit

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André Breton, Leonora Carrington, Kobo Abe, and More!

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From Harry Crosby to John Cheever, Duncan Hannah's Favorite Journals

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Beneath Every Poet, a Criminal Lurks

Beneath Every Poet, a Criminal Lurks

“Burglar, forger, safe cracker, arch-bigamist, poet, musician and prize fighter.”

By Nick Ripatrazone | April 2, 2019

James Baldwin Might Have Been Most<br> at Home in Istanbul

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In Praise of the 'How To' Creativity Workbook

In Praise of the 'How To' Creativity Workbook

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