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An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence
The Storyteller
by Pierre Jarawan
At the Festival Neue Literatur, A Crash Course in Contemporary German Literature
No Part of the World
by Stefanie de Velasco
At the Festival Neue Literatur, A Crash Course in Contemporary German Literature
The Old Drift
Namwali Serpell
"Tick. Tick. Tick. Tick. Over the past year, Thandiwe had developed an internal clock for when the seat-belt sign would go off. As the plane’s steep climb slowly tilted forward and evened out, she counted. Tick. Tick. DING."
Ghost Story
by Laura Freudenthaler
At the Festival Neue Literatur, A Crash Course in Contemporary German Literature
Our Software, Ourselves: Who Really Writes Our Narratives?
Pola Oloixarac on the Ungoogleable Lightness of Being
Dear Reader,5 Recommended Epistolary Novels
Viet Thanh Nguyen, Helene Hanff, and More of Shelley Wood's Favorites
5 Great Audiobooks for Spring
In Which James Tate Hill Reveals That Benjamin Dreyer Sounds Like Steve Martin
At a Dinner Inspired by Marlon James Latest Novel
Blood Sausage, Curried Goat, and a Rapt Literary Audience
Religious Cult, Force for Civil Rights, or Both?
On Father and Mother Divine, and the Peace Mission Movement
A Brief History of That Most Noble Tuber, the Potato
Rebecca Earle Brings a Little Humanity to a Humble Vegetable
A Change of Time
Ida Jessen, translated by Martin Aitken
"January 3, 1904. I am on my way now. Everything is packed. I haven’t even the time to write this. I shall continue later."
Why the Robot Takeover Isn’t Coming Any Time Soon
Without Platonic Dialectics, They Can't Really Understand Language
Maybe Becoming a Poet Just for the Praise Was Not a Good Move
Jessie Gaynor on the Perpetual Allure (and Trap) of Validation
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