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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week
Featuring new titles by Richard Ford, Sarah Viren, Tania James, and More
Asteroid City is Wes Anderson’s Metaphysical Masterpiece
A Lovely Meditation on Unknowable Phenomena of All Kinds: Love, Death, and Aliens
Grace E. Lavery: You Already Write How You Write, Just Give In.
“The freedoms on the other side of self-surrender are much more interesting than those that require egoistic management.”
Seven Swims: Omar El Akkad Chronicles a Life In Water
“The sense of drowning comes with a clarity of sorts: you get to know intimately, if only for a few seconds.”
Helen Ellis on Writing About People You Know (in a Nice Way).
“If you’ve told the same story three times this week, write that one.”
The Story of American Ice Begins with an Outrageous Marketing Plan
Amy Brady and Jeff Vandermeer in Conversation About the History and Future of Ice
A Desi Mr. Darcy: Sayantani DasGupta on Diverse Retellings of Regency Tales
“Maybe the sort of multicultural representation we see in recent Regency romances can be a kind of medicine.”
Mirinae Lee on Learning How to Write About War
"However painful it is to hear such stories, it is much more difficult for the wounded to share them."
An Interdisciplinary Friendship: Rajesh Parameswaran and Joeun Kim Aatchim in Conversation
A Writer and a Painter Discuss the Distractions of Residencies and the Mortality of Memories
The World Is Too Much With Us: Ann Beattie Close-Reads Frederick Barthelme’s “Box Step”
On Undermining the “Status Quo of the Literary Weird.”
How Writing About Climate Change Can Become a Form of Escapism
Deborah Willis on the Existential Contradictions of Writing While Our Planet Is Imperiled
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