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8 Novels About Returning to the Places We Leave Behind
Courtney Preiss recommends stories about young women trying to reconcile who they used to be with who they are now
A Secret Letter to the KGB Turned A Lost Family History Into a Novel
Inspired by her grandfather, Sasha Vasilyuk’s "Your Presence Is Mandatory" is about the reverberating consequences made by a Jewish Ukrainian soldier in Stalin's army
And You Thought the SAT Was Bad
“Oceania,” flash fiction by Alex Burchfield
8 Books that Explore Generational Conflict Through Genre
Even as our heroes face fantastical monsters and far-off places, they often find that the knottiest problems arise from their own families
Can Mitski and Her Stans Save American Theater?
Instead of reprimanding stan culture, it might be time for theaters to embrace it
A Communal Space of Writing
An Illustrated Interview with Danielle Dutton and Suzanne Scanlon about their new books "Committed" and "Prairie, Dresses, Art, Other"
7 Books About Fictional Technologies with World-Altering Consequences
In these warped versions of reality, tech is expanding the scope of what’s possible, at a cost
A Madman on the Ground, A Visionary in Flight
An excerpt from THE SKY WAS OURS by Joe Fassler, recommended by Kyle McCarthy
15 New and Forthcoming Poetry Collections You Should Be Reading
These poems inspire a new way of thinking and being
Predicting the 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
We're betting on these contenders for this year's most coveted literary award in America
Selected Arcana from My Literary Tarot
Tarot interperations of authors from James Baldwin to Judy Blume
7 Genre-Smashing Horror Novels in Translation
Zachary C. Solomon recommends literature that defies easy categorization and pushes against the parameters of form