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    Shailene Woodley is your new Patricia Highsmith.

    By Dan Sheehan  May 12, 2023
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    One great short story to read today: Donald Barthelme’s “Rebecca.”

    By Emily Temple  May 12, 2023
    Mother's Day

    How To Write About Your Mother

    By Terry McDonell  May 12, 2023
    Baillie Gifford Prize

    Why is Serious Nonfiction in the US Taken More Seriously Than in the UK?

    By Sam Leith  May 12, 2023
    Mother's Day

    “They Are the Mothers!” From Goethe to Cusk, Halting Progress for Moms

    By Jennifer Banks  May 12, 2023
    What to Watch

    Why Does Hollywood Keep Returning to Peter Pan?

    By Jonathan Russell Clark  May 12, 2023
    The Literary Life with Mitchell Kaplan

    Readings from the 2022 PEN America Prison Writing Awards Anthology

    By The Literary Life  May 12, 2023
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    The Five Devils is a Cinematic Gothic Novel for the Contemporary Age

    By Laura Valenza  May 12, 2023
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    Arinze Ifeakandu has won the 2023 Dylan Thomas Prize.

    By Janet Manley  May 11, 2023
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    Pedro Páramo is coming to Netflix.

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    See the cover for Kaveh Akbar’s novel Martyr!

    By Literary Hub  May 11, 2023
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    One great short story to read today: Wells Tower’s “Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned.”

    By Raf Richardson-Carillo  May 11, 2023
    What to Watch

    Garth Risk Hallberg Goes Behind the Scenes of the City on Fire Adaptation

    By Garth Risk Hallberg  May 11, 2023
    PEN World Voices

    To Heal the Planet, We Must Heal Ourselves: Ben Okri Proposes New Visions For Our Collective Future

    By Ben Okri  May 11, 2023
    Keen On

    Stephen Marche Explains Why Technologies Like ChatGPT Will Make Creators More Valuable Than Ever

    By Keen On  May 11, 2023
    Close Readings

    The Power of the Unsaid: John N. Maclean on Ernest Hemingway’s Big Two-Hearted River

    By John N. Maclean  May 11, 2023
    Animals

    This Eagle Would Eat Your Toddler If It Had The Chance

    By Adam Hart  May 11, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    The East Palestine Train Derailment and Your Health: Kerri Arsenault on the Pervasive and Ongoing Risks of Dioxin

    By Fiction Non Fiction  May 11, 2023
    The Maris Review

    A Kind of Mutuality: Christina Sharpe on the Importance of Regard

    By The Maris Review  May 11, 2023
    Music history

    How Nelson Mandela Became a Pop-Cultural Icon Through Music

    By Jonny Steinberg  May 11, 2023
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    Michael Walzer on What Progressives Can Learn From Liberal Nationalists Like Thomas Jefferson and Giuseppe Mazzini

    By Keen On  May 11, 2023
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    One great short story to read today: Lesley Nneka Arimah’s “Who Will Greet You at Home.”

    By Emily Temple  May 10, 2023
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    Biographer discovers that Martin Luther King’s harshest criticism of Malcolm X was made up.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 10, 2023
    Medical history

    How Chaos Theory Can Revitalize—and Save—Modern Medicine

    By Jennifer Lunden  May 10, 2023
    Art History

    On Victorian Paleoart and the Birth of a Sci-Fi Novel

    By C.E. McGill  May 10, 2023
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