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Borne
Jeff VanderMeer
"I found Borne on a sunny gunmetal day when the giant bear Mord came roving near our home. To me, Borne was just salvage at first. I didn’t know what Borne would mean to us."
Murakami vs. Bolaño: Competing Visions of the Global Novel
What Should International Fiction Accomplish?
What Curse? On the Chicago Cubs and Generations of Bad Luck
Scott Simon is Finally Ready to Talk About All the Bad...
10 Great Contemporary Novels About Teenagers (For Adults)
On the 50th anniversary of Teen Classic The Outsiders
Historical Fiction is More Important Than Ever: 10 Writers Weigh In
Sometimes, the Best Way to Learn the Mistakes of the Past is to Feel Them
How I Learned to Love the Weird, From Octavia Butler to Kelly Link
Brian Francis Slattery Finds a Home in the Strange and Unsettling
Prince’s Death Brought Snowfall in April
Ben Greenman Remembers the Sadness, the Aftermath, and the Endless Tributes
The Week in Literary Film and TV News
Ray Bradbury, China Miéville, Patrick DeWitt, and Philip K. Dick
Performing Hamlet in a Sandstorm at a Syrian Refugee Camp
"This was fear of God, of the end of days, not of a weather event"
Ukuleles and Lullabies and Plenty of Poets at Lincoln Center
Meryl Streep, Amanda Palmer, Maurice Hines, and More, at the 15th Annual Poetry & the Creative Mind Reading
One American’s 44-Year Battle to Rebuild Shakespeare’s Theater
How Sam Wanamaker Carried the Globe on His Shoulders
Squid Eggs, Traffic, Trees, and More: Object Lessons for Earth Day
Four Writers on the Environment and Climate Change
Dreamlives of Debris
Lance Olsen
“:::: DEBRIS First comes pain, Mommy whispered, then comes knowledge.”
Unlikely Cat-Lovers: Four Iconic Writers and the Felines Who Loved Them
Well, You Can Probably Guess One of the Them...
God’s Ear
Rhoda Lerman
“The Rabbi’s only son, Yussel, sold insurance, mostly life. He made a fortune because everyone in the Hasidishe world knew that his father, the Rabbi, and his grandfather of blessed memory, and his grandfather’s grandfather of blessed memory, all of them stretching back unbroken in a golden chain from Far Rockaway to Horodenka, to Braslow, Chernobyl, Lublin, Tiberias, Jerusalem, to David, to Adam, all of them in the Fetner family, made prophecy.”
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