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On the Serious Business of 19th-Century Fairy Paintings
Jennifer Higgie Considers the Significance of a Mystical Artistic Tradition
Erika Howsare on Finding Inspiration in Headlines
“As a poet, I love the pithiness of headlines—and beyond that, I love found language of all kinds.”
Marlon James on Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize, Authenticity as Pose, and Not Reading His Book Reviews
In Conversation with Griffin Ondaatje
How Alien We Seem: On Being Blind and Obsessed with Photography
M. Leona Godin Considers, Among Other Things, the Enduring Trope of the Blind Pencil Vendor
In Praise of Reading: How Literature Enables Us to Inhabit New Worlds
Arnold Weinstein Considers the Role of Reading in the Construction of the Human Spirit
Prachi Gupta on the Rise of Indian American Presidential Candidates
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
Conversations with the Long-Dead: My Literary Friendship with Margaret Cavendish
Francesca Peacock on the More Fanciful Aspects of Writing a Biography
Memories Aren’t Enough: Why Sometimes Only Fiction Can Solve the Mysteries of Life
Emily Schultz on the Importance of Slanted Truths in Storytelling
Horror, Then Healing: Kyle Dillon Hertz on the Power of Facing Trauma in Writing
Finding Liberation Through Literary Depictions of Harm
24 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Look Forward to in 2024
Exciting New Series’ and Standalones From Kelly Link, Lev Grossman, Sofia Samatar, James S.A. Corey, and More
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