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When a Very Small Press Wins a Pulitzer

When a Very Small Press Wins a Pulitzer

Paul Harding Looks Back at Tinkers, Ten Years On

By Paul Harding | January 24, 2019

"When It Comes to This Fleshed Neck"

Deborah Landau's Poem in the Latest Freeman's

By Deborah Landau | January 11, 2019

Conversations with My Nanny

Conversations with My Nanny

Leila Slimani, Author of The Nanny, on Her Not-So-Prudish Nanny

By Leïla Slimani | January 10, 2019

Honor Moore: On Finishing the Book and Conjuring My Mother

Honor Moore: On Finishing the Book and Conjuring My Mother

"I will finish for good, I pledged, by the anniversary of her death."

By Honor Moore | January 3, 2019

Whose Streets? A Conversation About Walking

Whose Streets? A Conversation About Walking

Aminatta Forna Talks To Taiye Selasi

By John Freeman | December 20, 2018

What Did You Read This Year That You Loved?

What Did You Read This Year That You Loved?

Freeman's Contributors Weigh In on Their Favorite Books of 2018

By John Freeman | December 17, 2018

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Rabih Alameddine: The Novels I Loved This Year

By Rabih Alameddine | December 14, 2018

In Honor of a Great Mentor: James Alan McPherson

By Marcus Burke | December 12, 2018

On Discovering the Lost Manuscripts of Naguib Mahfouz

By Marcia Lynx Qualey | December 11, 2018

"Grenfell Tower, June 2017"

Read a New Poem by Ben Okri

By Ben Okri | December 4, 2018

Windows to the World: At WS Merwin's Old French Farmhouse

Windows to the World: At WS Merwin's Old French Farmhouse

Michael Wiegers Looks Out on the Landscapes of a Poet's Life

By Michael Wiegers | November 28, 2018

The Time Halldor Laxness Was Almost Deported from America

The Time Halldor Laxness Was Almost Deported from America

And How the ACLU Saved Him

By Halldór Guðmundsson | November 21, 2018

On the Myth of Stockholm Syndrome and Women Guerrilla Fighters

On the Myth of Stockholm Syndrome and Women Guerrilla Fighters

“In the presence of her captors, to 'act crazy' would extend the length, and brutality, of her captivity.”

By Nimmi Gowrinathan | November 16, 2018

Nuar Alsadir: The Craft of Writing Empathy

Nuar Alsadir: The Craft of Writing Empathy

On Otherness, Analysis, and What I Learned in Clown School

By Nuar Alsadir | November 6, 2018

Creating a New Tradition of Latin American Horror

Creating a New Tradition of Latin American Horror

Mariana Enriquez on the Dark Side of Writing as an Argentinian

By Mariana Enriquez | October 31, 2018

Elif Shafak on Ways of Knowing and the Women in Her Life

Elif Shafak on Ways of Knowing and the Women in Her Life

A Granddaughter Remembers

By Elif Shafak | October 17, 2018

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