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April 15, 2013

Adam Johnson’s North Korea Novel Takes the Pulitzer Prize 1

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After taking a pass last year, the Pulitzer jury offered up a fiction winner.

April 15, 2013

Not the Worst Thing 0

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Step one: go read A. Igoni Barrett’s bravura confessional for The Millions. Step two: go check out this excerpt from his upcoming book in Guernica.

April 15, 2013

The Center of Things 0

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“I never thought of myself as an outsider. Because outside of what? You would have to give advantage to this space where you’re not, to think of it as sovereign because you’re not there. I was always in the center of where I needed to be.” Aleksander Hemon on writing his new book.

April 15, 2013

Reading with the Jetsons 0

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Ever dreamt of using a sophisticated library where robots fetch your books for you? Well, you bespectacled futurist, guess what. (h/t The Paris Review)

April 15, 2013

A Stake in the Conflict 0

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Reporting on a war in your homeland is tricky business, but in the fifties, Albert Camus (whose collected articles on the Algerian War of Independence are now available in book form) managed, in spite of his investment in the conflict, to get it right.

April 15, 2013

James Ross’s They Don’t Dance Much Returns From the Grave. Again. 3

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Read this dark dirty lovely country-noir masterpiece already.