Sequoia Nagamatsu’s Dystopian Debut Is a Must-Read for the New Year

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Sequioa Nagamatsu discusses his much-awaited debut novel about people living in a future beset by the Arctic Plague.
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Lily King Is in the Business of Hope

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Lily King discusses her new story collection, Five Tuesdays in Winter, which she considers a rebellion against our dark times.
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Female Abjection Through the Eyes of Jean Rhys

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Mariah Kreutter examines the work of Jean Rhys, and how her exploration of femalle suffering still echoes throughout contemporary fiction.
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Rebecca Solnit on the Value of Nonlinear Narratives

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Solnit's work mirrors the workings of a living, breathing ecosystem, and calling it an essay collection shows a "failure to recognize internal cohesion."
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Children’s Books from the Margins of Life with Maurice Sendak

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Michele Kirichanskaya delves into the ways Maurice Sendak's experiences as a queer, Jewish writer influenced his innovative children's books.
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Embracing Tackiness with Rax King

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Rax King discusses her intimate and hilarious essay collection and defining tackiness as "utter unselfconscious sincerity."
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The Coming-of-Age Stories That Made Charlie Jane Anders

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Charlie Jane Anders discusses the coming-of-age stories that shaped her award-winning science fiction and helped her confront the world in front of her.
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A History of Resilience, Documented by Keum Suk Gendry-Kim

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Keum Suk Gendry-Kim discusses her newest book, The Waiting, inspired by her mother's family separation and reunion in the midst of war.
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The Benefits of Bilingualism

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Masha Rumer takes a brief look at bilingualism, its history in the United States, and the benefits of growing up speaking more than one language.
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Ghost Stories and Haunted Histories, as Told by Louise Erdrich

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Pulitzer-Prize winning author Louise Erdrich discusses her new novel, The Sentence, a ghost story that handles serious topics with nuance and dark humor.
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The Story Behind Penguin Modern Classics’ Iconic Cover Designs

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Henry Eliot provides an essential guide to the Penguin Modern Classics series, which has showcased key works in literature for the past 60 years.
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Trying Anything on the Page with Kiese Laymon

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Tressie McMillan Cottom interviews fellow author Kiese Laymon on the fear and willingness to try anything that fuels his writing process.
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The Climate Crisis and the Exclusion of Non-White Voices

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Ugandan climate activist Vanessa Nakate speaks about her time at the Arctic Basecamp and being cropped out of a key news photo by the Associated Press.
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Kyle Lucia Wu Leaves Room to Think Expansively

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Kyle Lucia Wu discusses her debut novel, Win Me Something, as well as the process of balancing discipline with self-kindness when writing.
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Leaning Into Power with Sonia Sanchez

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Sonia Sanchez has been influencing writers for generations, encouraging them to tap into their own strength to fuel their poetry.
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Anne Carson: Herakles Junkie

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Anne Carson provides fans of Greek tragedy with an intelligent and delightfully bizarre reimagining of Euripides's Herakles.
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Sandra Cisneros Writes Stories That Take on a Life of Their Own

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Sandra Cisneros discusses her new book, Martita, I Remember You, an unsent letter from a woman recalling a brief stay in Paris and the sisterhoods she formed there.
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A Feast Fit for Frankenstein and His Monster

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Valerie Stivers cooks a feast inspired by the food found within the pages of Mary Shelley's gothic classic, Frankenstein.
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