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Lucia Berlin vs. Raymond Carver:
Who Is the Real Patron Saint of Realism?
Or, Who We [Should] Talk About When We Talk About Realism
On the Vital Importance of Preserving the Most Obscure—and Endangered—of the World’s Many Languages
Lorna Gibb Considers How Language Shapes Identities, Worldviews and Societies Across the Globe
How Christian Missionaries Sought to Erase Native American Culture and Identity
Mary Annette Pember on the Church-State Collaboration That Led to Systematic Displacement Throughout the 19th Century
Simple, Not Shallow: In Praise of Seemingly Surface Friendships
Annie B. Jones: “Surface, I have learned, might be okay. It might even be enough. It might be all there is.”
Writing With Four Hands: Anne and Claire Berest on Writing a Novel Together as Sisters
A Conversation Between the Authors of “Gabriële” (As Translated by Michael Reynolds)
The Acid Queen: Rosemary Woodruff Leary, the Invisible Woman of Western Psychedelia
Susannah Cahalan on the Disappearing Acts and Unseen Influences of Timothy Leary’s Wife
The Cosmic Library on How Dostoevsky’s Fiction Surpassed Dostoevsky
Featuring Andrew Martin, Katherine Bowers, and more
The Most Literary Pope:
Requiescat in Pace, Francis
“Literature engages our concrete existence, with its innate tensions, desires and meaningful experiences...”
Following in Elephants’ Footsteps: Packing for a Congo Expedition in the 1800s, and Now
Sophy Roberts Examines the Travelogues and Expeditions of Nineteenth-Century Europeans
The Quiet Trauma of the Uprooted: Confronting the Origin Myths of Cuban Refugee Families
Ana Hebra Flaster on an Immigrant Family’s Reckonings in a New Country
Words as Borders, Weapons, Traps: Sarah Aziza on Being a Palestinian Writer Today
The Author of “The Hollow Half” Explores Language, Silence, and Being
Lydia Millet on the Challenges of Writing In the Here and Now
Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of "Atavists"
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