July 14 – 18, 2025
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- Ursula K. Le Guin’s forgotten YA trilogy
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Episode 9 of Fiction/Non/Fiction: On Censorship and
Frankenstein in Baghdad
Ahmed Saadawi, Trans. by Jonathan Wright
“Hasib Mohamed Jaafar was 21 years old, dark, slim, and married to Dua Jabbar.”
The Juniper Tree
Barbara Comyns
“When I was a child, just before my father left us, he gave me a large doll. She had rather an ugly face and stiff hair you couldn’t brush, but I loved her.”
My Last Conversation with Ursula K. Le Guin
John Freeman on a Cherished Visit to the Beloved Writer's Home
Decorate Your House (And Arrange Your Books) Like Edith Wharton
How Putting Books in a Room Provides Both "A Function and a Solace"
Nobody’s Sh*thole: The Ugly History of Vilifying Haiti
Gabrielle Bellot on Donald Trump, Pat Robertson, and Corrosive Ways of Seeing
Enjoying the Fleeting Nature of Theater, in the Wake of Cancer
Dan O'Brien Reflects on the Dramaturgical Beat
I Address My Prayer to Myself: Three Poems from Through Clenched Teeth
Sarah Jean Alexander, Lauren Hunter, and Precious Okoyomon
10 Other Literary Writers We’d Love to See with Weekly Columns
Who Will Follow Elena Ferrante? (Rabih Alameddine? Maggie Nelson? Please?)
Same As It Ever Was: Orientalism Forty Years Later
On Edward Said, Othering, and the Depictions of Arabs in America
How Being a Librarian Makes Me a Better Writer
Xhenet Aliu on the Fine Art of Controlled Vocabularies
Temple of the Scapegoat
Alexander Kluge, Trans. by Isabel Cole, Donna Stonecipher, and Martin Chalmers
“In her second semester at an art academy in southern Germany, the daughter of a brewery owner (with properties in Bavaria, but also in the Czech Republic) met and fell in love with a Japanese man. ”
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