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The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 25 to 16
Counting Down the Year That Was, One Story at a Time
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Old Books for Cold Weather
“I spent the following day roaming through the valley. I stood beside the sources of the Arveiron, which take their rise in a glacier, that with slow pace is advancing down from the summit of the hills to barricade the valley.”
The Deep Obsessions of the Nonfiction Writer
Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz Shares Her Five Favorite Fellow Obsessive Writers
The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 35 to 26
Counting Down the Year That Was, One Story at a Time
“The Clancy Kid”
Colin Barrett
“My town is nowhere you have been, but you know its ilk. A roundabout off a national road, an industrial estate, a five-screen Cineplex, a century of pubs packed inside the square mile of the town’s limits. The Atlantic is near; the gnarled jawbone of the coastline with its gull-infested promontories is near.”
Actually, Emma is the Best Jane Austen Novel
On the 200th Anniversary of a Classic, An Argument for Its Greatness
The 50 Biggest Literary Stories of the Year: 50 to 36
Counting Down the Year That Was, One Story at a Time
An Ode to Cold and Snow: Scenes from Winter’s Tale
Incantations of Ice from Mark Helprin's Odd Epic of the North
The Argonauts
Maggie Nelson
“Every other weekend of my pregnant fall—my so-called golden trimester—I traveled alone around the country on behalf of my book The Art of Cruelty. Quickly I realized that I would need to trade in my prideful self-sufficiency for a willingness to ask for help—in lifting my bags in and out of overhead compartments, up and down subway steps, and so on. I received this help, which I recognized as great kindness. On more than one occasion, a service member in the airport literally saluted me as I shuffled past.”
The First-Ever Photographs of Animals at Night
In Honor of the Longest Night of the Year, Pioneering Work by George Shiras
Five Books Making News This Week: Winos, Art Critics, and Belated Praise
Frances Dinkelspiel, Julian Barnes, Lucia Berlin, and More
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