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The Anger of Memory: Teju Cole’s Tremor

  • Thomas Larson
  • October 25, 2023
In this, Cole has taken the "tragedy" of a transcontinental survivalist to spin a narrative that transcends the conventional perimeters of a novel.
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A Lament, A Call to Action, A Love Story: A Conversation with Alejandro Varela

  • Lauren C. Johnson
  • October 23, 2023
There’s truth in everything we write, but there’s a lot of fabrication and fantasy, and you don’t have that freedom with science.
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Owning the Self: Yesenia Montilla’s Muse Found in a Colonized Body

  • Dorothy Doyle
  • October 18, 2023
I only care about revolution / & the ugly business of revenge.
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The Tether Between Poetry and Science: a conversation with Emily Hockaday

  • Christine Kandic Torres
  • October 18, 2023
Just as my body that might ache all night is the same body that gives me pleasure. And I feel it aching because I am alive and living in it.
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A Literature for Lost Souls: Oksana Vasyakina’s Wound

  • Roxana Kadyrova
  • October 17, 2023
Vasyakina powerfully encompasses the absurd and expansive universe of what Gogol described as the  “unbridled incomprehensible Rus,” her homeland land with its terrors, its poetry and loftiness and its magic, to the skin and bones of the tender and violent people who inhabit it.
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The Confines of Masculinity Are Killing Us: A Conversation with Joe Milan Jr.

  • Lorinda Toledo
  • October 16, 2023
We believe we grant access to our lives to others; I think that is an illusion.
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The Way America Treats Teens Is Unacceptable: A Conversation with Emi Nietfeld

  • Deirdre Sugiuchi
  • October 11, 2023
Being affected in those ways can give us motivation to make sure that other people aren’t hurt in the same ways that we’ve been hurt.
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Food and Fraternity: Bryan Washington’s Family Meal

  • Spencer Gaffney
  • October 10, 2023
Reading a new book by an admired writer offers the chance to recapture the familiar pleasures of their previous work—the equivalent of ordering your favorite dish at a restaurant again, comparing it to the version that only lives in your memory.
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Staking Ground in Multiple Lands: A Conversation with Ghassan Zeineddine

  • Brian Truong
  • October 9, 2023
I don’t consciously look for symbols while I’m writing; they come to me from being in the community.
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The World of Family and the Otherworldly: Jenny Sadre-Orafai’s Dear Outsiders

  • Danielle Hanson
  • October 4, 2023
Odd and evocative, Dear Outsiders does what literature does best—it takes the reader into a new world which changes them while it too changes.
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Magical Realism as the Savior of Memory: A Conversation with John Manuel Arias

  • Greg Mania
  • October 4, 2023
Characters do stuff, and the reader is always going to ask "why," and as a writer I’m just as interested.
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Child-rearing and Novel-writing: Kate Briggs’s The Long Form

  • Georgie Devereux
  • October 3, 2023
THE LONG FORM reimagines both this relationship of mother-and-child and the histories and capacities of the novel. In the process, it disrupts these well-worn structures to create something delightfully new.
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