The Smell of Sun Cream: Glimpses of the Outside World from Communist Albania

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8 books perfectly summed up with out-of-context Derry Girls.

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The young white supremacist sentenced to read the classics has now been sentenced to actual jail.

The young white supremacist sentenced to read the classics has now been sentenced to actual jail.

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Sheila Heti turned her diaries into alphabetized autofiction. Now they're a newsletter.

Sheila Heti turned her diaries into alphabetized autofiction. Now they're a newsletter.

By Walker Caplan | January 19, 2022

Here are this year's Edgar Allan Poe Award nominees.

Here are this year's Edgar Allan Poe Award nominees.

By Snigdha Koirala | January 19, 2022

My Year of Reading Every Ursula K. Le Guin Novel

My Year of Reading Every Ursula K. Le Guin Novel

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