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Notes from the Resistance: A Column on Language and Power
Summer Brennan, In Defense of Linguistic Infrastructure
December 9, 2016
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What Counts As Transgender Literature?
On the Writing(s) of Kai Cheng Thom, and the Elusiveness of Categories
December 9, 2016
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How We Write About Work,
Then and Now
On Dickens, Office Life, and Tales of the Precariat in Contemporary Fiction
December 8, 2016
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Turning a Book Into a Movie is Like Making Booze
Terry George on the Distillation Process Behind In the Name of the Father
December 8, 2016
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How Do We Pay the Poets?
Amanda Nadelberg Considers Sustainable Funding for Actual Poets
December 7, 2016
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Was Edmund Wilson Just Jealous of Lolita?
How a Great American Literary Critic Got it Wrong About a Classic
December 6, 2016
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Val McDermid: 'It Doesn't Get Easier,
It Gets Harder!'
In Conversation with Edinburgh's Master of Crime Fiction
December 5, 2016
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Maybe It's Time to Leave the Earth...
On the Best Ways for the Human Race to Keep Going in Space
December 2, 2016
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Trevor Noah on Growing Up in South Africa Under Apartheid
"Where most children are proof of their parents’ love, I was the proof of their criminality."
December 2, 2016
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I Was a Ghostwriter for a Ghostwriter
On Time Spent in a Memoir Factory
December 1, 2016
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A Visit to the Shadowy World of Rare Book Theft
The Seedy Underbelly of Antiquarian Bookselling
December 1, 2016
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The Gifts of Reading Are Many
Robert Macfarlane Reflects on What You Give When You Give a Book
November 30, 2016
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Storytelling vs. Oversharing in the
Age of Snapchat
On the work of Rachel Cusk, Claire-Louise Bennett, and Eimear McBride
November 29, 2016
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How Pacifism Can Lead to
Violence and Conflict
Miriam Toews on the Conflicts that Arise from Mennonites' Non-Conflict
November 28, 2016
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Giving Thanks is a Political Act
Celeste Ng Offers Gratitude During a Difficult Time
November 23, 2016
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10 Contemporary Novels About the Immigrant Experience in America
This is America, we would say to ourselves, there is no need to worry.
November 22, 2016
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Masha Gessen: Why We Must Protest
Peaceful Protest is as Much a Part of Democracy as Elections
November 21, 2016
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David Ulin: Beware a Kinder, Gentler American Fascism
Bear Witness and Behave As If You Are Free
November 16, 2016
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