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Joy Williams on the Troubling Grace and Strange Assurances of Brad Watson's Work

Joy Williams on the Troubling Grace and Strange Assurances of Brad Watson's Work

loneliness and wonder."">"He could be appallingly funny yet tap into a grievous
loneliness and wonder."

By Joy Williams | August 3, 2020

On Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis's Rise to the Top of Brazilian Literature

On Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis's Rise to the Top of Brazilian Literature

Robin Patterson and Margaret Jull Costa Trace the Author's Beginnings

By Robin Patterson and Margaret Jull Costa | August 3, 2020

The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

12 New Books to Round Out Your Summer Reading

By Emily Temple | July 31, 2020

My Unborn Baby Has Strong Opinions About Classic Literature

My Unborn Baby Has Strong Opinions About Classic Literature

A Comic by Kate Gavino Featuring In Utero Reviews

By Kate Gavino | July 30, 2020

A New Generation of Writers in Bosnia and Herzegovina Narrates Life<br> Beyond War

A New Generation of Writers in Bosnia and Herzegovina Narrates Life
Beyond War

Stacy Mattingly on the Country's Renewed Literary World

By Stacy Mattingly | July 30, 2020

The Literary Life of Pessoa's Alter Ego

The Literary Life of Pessoa's Alter Ego

Jerónimo Pizarro and Patricio Ferrari on a Man Who Came
"Out of Nothing"

By Jerónimo Pizarro and Patricio Ferrari | July 29, 2020

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Some of the Earliest Written Dialogues Were in Middle English Literature

By David Crystal | July 28, 2020

Amiri Baraka's Anti-Epic Poem About America's Destruction

By Michael Leong | July 28, 2020

On Jane Austen's Politics of Walking

By Rachel Cohen | July 24, 2020

Catherine Lacey is Not Interested in Promises of Redemption

Catherine Lacey is Not Interested in Promises of Redemption

The Author of Pew Talks to Kristin Iversen
About God, Alienation, and More

By Kristin Iversen | July 23, 2020

Arthur C. Clarke's Scientific Romances Eschew Spectacle for Dumbstruck Wonder

Arthur C. Clarke's Scientific Romances Eschew Spectacle for Dumbstruck Wonder

John Clute on Rendezvous with Rama

By John Clute | July 23, 2020

How John Steinbeck's Final Novel Grappled With Immigration and Morality

How John Steinbeck's Final Novel Grappled With Immigration and Morality

When White Privilege Interrogates Itself in Literature

By Tobias Carroll | July 22, 2020

Remembering Australian Novelist Elizabeth Harrower

Remembering Australian Novelist Elizabeth Harrower

you'll have to go home."">"Like any holiday, it comes to an end. You know
you'll have to go home."

By Michael Heyward | July 22, 2020

On the Biggest Collection of Fantasy Tales Since WWII

On the Biggest Collection of Fantasy Tales Since WWII

Ann and Jeff VanderMeer Preview The Big Book of Modern Fantasy

By Jeff and Ann VanderMeer | July 21, 2020

Five Japanese Authors Share Their Favorite Murakami Short Stories

Five Japanese Authors Share Their Favorite Murakami Short Stories

Yoko Ogawa, Masatsugu Ono, and Others Discuss

By David Karashima | July 20, 2020

On John Berger and Writing As an <br>Act of Distancing

On John Berger and Writing As an
Act of Distancing

Guy Gunaratne at the Intersection of Isolation and Hope

By Guy Gunaratne | July 20, 2020

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