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"Literary style should be a way of knowing how the world is met in its unfolding." In conversation with Booker Prize-winner Paul Lynch. | Lit Hub
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"A poetic work of the highest order." The late Gabriel García Márquez sings the praises of Juan Rulfo's classic Mexican novel Pedro Páramo. | Lit Hub Criticism
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Women think about the Roman Empire, too: Emma Southon calls for a women's history of Ancient Rome. | Lit Hub History
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On Constantine Simonides, one of history's great manuscript forgers. | Lit Hub
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Sigrid Nunez's The Vulnerables, Barbra Streisand's My Name is Barbra, and Claire Keegan's So Late in the Day all feature among November's best reviewed books. | Book Marks
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Martin Edwards considers a classic holiday murder mystery from the king of locked room crime novels, John Dickson Carr. | CrimeReads
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"What is there to say about a person who is gone too soon, who did so much good, who had much more good work and life in front of him, other than it is a loss?" John Warner on the passing of Gabe Hudson. | The Biblioracle Recommends
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"The spirit of the moment is cultural atonement and ethical consumption—and the bombshell is having a reckoning." Ariella Garmaise considers the memoirs of Britney Spears, Pamela Anderson, and Paris Hilton. | The Walrus
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Matthew Lamb explores the complexity of balancing storytelling and truth when writing a biography. | The Conversation
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"Everyone finds the Melville they want." Andrew Schenker on Herman Melville's legacy. | The Baffler
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Financial anxiety, hybrid learning, the end of the academic bubble: Kate Dwyer considers the future of the realist campus novel. | Esquire
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Stacy Y. China looks at how Cave Canem has nurtured generations of Black poets. | The New York Times
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"Woolf's particular magic created a powerful touchstone that captured dimensions of trans experience, even though she never lived these herself." Julia Sirmons considers three adaptations of Orlando. | LARB
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"In Marienbad we were relieved from the feeling that we'd missed a heyday—we did, but it doesn't matter." Lauren Oyler visits a wellness destination. | Granta
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An argument for abolishing literary genres. | The Guardian
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"I had envisioned book bans as modern morality plays… But what happened in Memphis wasn't so simple." Robert Samuels on the reverberating effects of book bans. | The New Yorker
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Kaya Genç considers Kawa Nemir's Kurdish translation of Ulysses. | The Dial
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"The Palestinian people, on television screens or more largely in the public sphere, exist in a false dichotomy: We are either victims or terrorists." Mohammed El-Kurd on the suppression of the Palestinian point of view, past and present. | The Nation
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"I felt myself seesawing between gratitude for my life and preoccupation with the void." Evan Grillon chronicles his experience of open-heart surgery. | Dirt
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Just another reason to protect librarians at all costs: They helped defeat the Nazis. | JSTOR Daily
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"The postcard is an object as much as a message, and sending one, for Bishop, was like giving a gift." Langdon Hammer on Elizabeth Bishop's postcards. | The Paris Review
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