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Jesmyn Ward: Sing, Unburied, Sing

By Deirdre Sugiuchi September 21, 2017

The author on her latest novel, transforming archetypes, and a changing Mississippi.

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Semiotics Has Never Been More Thrilling

By Jordan A. Rothacker September 14, 2017

Laurent Binet’s latest novel is a great big joke, and a crash course in literary theory.

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When White Supremacy Gets Road Rage

By Emma Copley Eisenberg September 12, 2017

Why it matters that James Fields chose a car as his weapon in Charlottesville, VA.

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Suzy Hansen: The Rest of the World Knows

By Nicholas Bredie September 7, 2017

The writer on living abroad in Istanbul and the fraught concepts of American innocence and empire.

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Victor LaValle: Fairy Tales Redux

By Irene Plax August 24, 2017

The novelist discusses his latest book, The Changeling, and imagining the deaths of your children.

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In Defense of Imagination

By Ada Limón August 16, 2017

The poets Matthew Zapruder and Ada Limón discuss Zapruder’s new prose book, Why Poetry.

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Luljeta Lleshanaku: Words Are Delicate Instruments

By Lucia Duero July 24, 2017

The Albanian poet speaks to her translator about coming of age under dictatorship and understanding her own words in another language.

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Review

Kafka’s Selfies

By Jesse Sherwood July 20, 2017

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

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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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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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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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