Review

Kafka’s Selfies

By Jesse Sherwood July 20, 2017

A new collection highlights Kafka's Kardashian-esque self-reflection.

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Review

Drawn and Quartered

By Hunter Braithwaite July 18, 2017

Sarah Sentilles’s new book offers a meditation on war, art, torture, and memory.

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Review

A Vanishing Hong Kong

By Tammy Lai-Ming Ho July 12, 2017

The latest story collection from the Hong Kong Writers Circle imagines dystopian futures.

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Commentary

Rebranding the Civic, From Private Prisons to Border Patrol

By Liza St. James May 16, 2017

Dispatches from the PEN World Voices Festival.

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Review

Tense Because We Lived

By Tracy O’Neill May 9, 2017

On Robert Lopez's latest novel.

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Review

Lidia Yuknavitch Writes the End of the World

By Rachel Veroff May 3, 2017

Self-destruction as resistance in The Book of Joan.

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Essay

On Impractical Urges

By Ayana Mathis April 3, 2017

What America's cult of success hates to admit: race and class can shape not just the path to realizing ambitions, but even whether we recognize our right to have them.

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Review

A World of Her Own

By J. Jezewska Stevens March 31, 2017

The comic wonderland of Elif Batuman’s debut novel.

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Interview

Elif Batuman: Speaking Different Languages

By Lauren LeBlanc March 13, 2017

The writer on her new novel and the many systems—linguistic, technological, cultural—that we use to speak with one another in life and literature.

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Essay

Journeying with James Baldwin

By Raoul Peck February 1, 2017

A Personal Note From the Director of I Am Not Your Negro.

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Man Without Fear

By Sholeh Wolpé January 12, 2017

On an island, marred by a bloody past, a poet falls in love.

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