The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2023
“Yes, it’s her world and after reading her book I just wish I could move off-planet.”
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Blake Butler on (Not) Finding Your Voice
“Your only job is to find a way to secure enough time to keep throwing yourself into the void.”
“Dead Cats Continue to Meow.” A Poem by Nasser Rabah
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David James Duncan on Choosing Between Art and Activism
In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast
We Are All Witches: Elizabeth Willis and Nancy Bowen on the Contemporary Echoes of Centuries-Old Fears
E. Tracy Grinnell Talks to the Poet-Artist Team Behind Spectral Evidence
All of Us Strangers Confronts the Dangers of Spinning Trauma Into Art
Andrew Quintana on Director Andrew Haigh’s New Masterpiece
The Annotated Nightstand: What Sabrina Orah Mark Is Reading Now and Next
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