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Text Colliding with Text: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

  • Josh English
  • July 5, 2022
Much of the novel questions what constitutes a life: If it’s reduced or subverted or is itself a simulation, is it still worth living?
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We Are More: Tehranto

  • Nedda Sarshar
  • June 15, 2022
I can’t recall a single time that my father has told me about his journey through the mountains . . . It was just something that I picked up, some truth that I have always carried.
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Wash

  • Karine Hack
  • November 16, 2021
I hate the word clean. It’s antiseptic, scrubbed raw; it makes me think of sin and guilt and a God I don’t believe in.
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Tongue Stuck

  • Irina Dumitrescu
  • October 12, 2021
It was a kind of madness to speak a language to my son that I hadn’t used in almost a decade.
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Making Space for Curiosity: A Conversation with Pik-Shuen Fung

  • Annie Liontas
  • July 21, 2021
Pik-Shuen Fung discusses her debut novel, GHOST FOREST.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • July 6, 2021
Indie bookstore news from across the country and around the world!
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • March 2, 2021
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Reading the Landscape of the Past: Jessica J. Lee’s Two Trees Make a Forest

  • Sangamithra Iyer
  • December 23, 2020
Learning to read a landscape can reveal a deep history.
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • October 13, 2020
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This Week in Indie Bookstores

  • Ian MacAllen
  • September 29, 2020
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A Poetic Smorgasbord: A History of My Brief Body by Billy-Ray Belcourt

  • Cody Lee
  • August 12, 2020
Each sentence is calculated; each word explodes.
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A Fantastic Communion: Renaissance Normcore by Adèle Barclay

  • Jessica Fu
  • August 7, 2020
Salt—the speaker’s only remains, after she dives into the ocean and sets herself free of the past.
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