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The Hard, Familiar Truths of Rion Amilcar Scott's Invented World

The Hard, Familiar Truths of Rion Amilcar Scott's Invented World

The Author of The World Doesn't Require You in Conversation with Danielle Evans

By Danielle Evans | September 12, 2019

The Eerily Prescient Lessons of<br> <em>Darkness at Noon</em>

The Eerily Prescient Lessons of
Darkness at Noon

Michael Scammell on the Eternal Totalitarian Truths of Arthur Koestler's Classic

By Michael Scammell | September 12, 2019

On the Iconic Iraqi Writer Who Modernized Poetic Forms

On the Iconic Iraqi Writer Who Modernized Poetic Forms

Fadhil al-Azzawi, a Countercultural Literary Force

By Farouk Yousif | September 12, 2019

Why Does Sickness Feel So Isolating When Everyone is Sick?

Why Does Sickness Feel So Isolating When Everyone is Sick?

Natalie Adler on Anne Boyer's The Undying

By Natalie Adler | September 11, 2019

Lucy Ellmann, a Great American Novelist Hiding in Plain Sight

Lucy Ellmann, a Great American Novelist Hiding in Plain Sight

Lori Feathers in Conversation with the Author of Ducks, Newburyport

By Lori Feathers | September 9, 2019

The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Defies Easy Genre Categorization

The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Defies Easy Genre Categorization

Andrew Ervin on Gormenghast and The Big Book of Fantasy

By Andrew Ervin | September 9, 2019

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Just Because Walt Whitman Self-Published, Doesn't Mean You Should, Too

By Nick Ripatrazone | September 9, 2019

Mourning Paule Marshall, the Foremother Who Didn't Always Love Me Back

By Rosamond S. King | September 9, 2019

On Agatha Christie and the Dawn of a Post-Capitalist Era

By Slavoj Žižek | September 9, 2019

The Writer Who Rejected the Black Literary Bourgeoisie

The Writer Who Rejected the Black Literary Bourgeoisie

On Charles S. Wright's 1960s Novels of Societal Rejects

By Ishmael Reed | September 6, 2019

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Feats of Shame and Openness

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Feats of Shame and Openness

Kim Adrian on My Struggle's Experimental Vision

By Kim Adrian | September 6, 2019

A Good Conversation is Like a (Good) Game of Tennis

A Good Conversation is Like a (Good) Game of Tennis

Benjamin Markovits on the Value of Making Contact

By Benjamin Markovits | September 6, 2019

14 Writers Choose One Book That Gives Them Hope in a Dark Time

14 Writers Choose One Book That Gives Them Hope in a Dark Time

A Selection of This Year's Hay Festival Writers Reflect on
the Power of Reading

By Hay Festival | September 6, 2019

Did the Russian <em>Wizard of Oz</em> Subvert Soviet Propaganda?

Did the Russian Wizard of Oz Subvert Soviet Propaganda?

Olga Zilberbourg on Aleksandr Volkov's Adaptation of
L. Frank Baum's Classic

By Olga Zilberbourg | September 6, 2019

Charles Johnson Remembers the Great Paule Marshall

Charles Johnson Remembers the Great Paule Marshall

RIP Paule Marshall, 1929-2019

By Charles Johnson | September 5, 2019

The Many Literary Landscapes of Tokyo

The Many Literary Landscapes of Tokyo

From the City of Samurai to the Gardens of Nobility

By Anna Sherman | September 4, 2019

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