How I Learned to Love the Weird, From Octavia Butler to Kelly Link

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Brian Francis Slattery Finds a Home in the Strange and Unsettling

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Nihilism or Wonder? On the Evolution of the Alien Story

Nihilism or Wonder? On the Evolution of the Alien Story

Investigating Extraterrestrial Metaphors for Communism, Religion, Love & Art

By Emily Harnett | April 19, 2017

A Political Conversion on the Way to a Novel

A Political Conversion on the Way to a Novel

Margot Singer on Rediscovering Post-9/11 Complexity

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Louise Glück on Realism and Fantasy

Louise Glück on Realism and Fantasy

"The fantastic exists as hypothesis and dream."

By Louise Gluck | April 18, 2017

Some of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Best Characters Were Dead People

Some of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Best Characters Were Dead People

On Love, Death, and Life in the Work of a Master

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 17, 2017

Race is the Original American Fiction

Race is the Original American Fiction

On Reuniting with The Descendants of Thomas Jefferson's Slaves

By Andrew Mitchell Davenport | April 13, 2017

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On Failure, Motherhood, and Flightless Birds

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Rebecca Solnit on Silence, Pornography, and Feminist Literature

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