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On the Conservatism of Contemporary Literary Fiction

Beasts of No Nation"> Katie Kitamura on the Power of Voice in Uzodinma Iweala’s <em

Beasts of No Nation">Katie Kitamura on the Power of Voice in Uzodinma Iweala’s Beasts of No Nation

What We Can Give Each Other: On Octavia Butler’s “Speech Sounds”

The Stone Door"> Escape from the Land of the Dead: On Leonora Carrington’s <em

The Stone Door">Escape from the Land of the Dead: On Leonora Carrington’s The Stone Door

Here are all the new Guggenheim fellows in the literary arts.

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Broke Heart Blues">“A Valentine to the Intoxicating Nostalgia of High School.” Joyce Carol Oates on Writing Broke Heart Blues

Poetic Prankster: On Rudyard Kipling’s Boundary-Blurring Satire of Bureaucracy

Joy Williams on the Wild, Lyrical Stories of Brad Watson

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I Could Have Been Harsher: Lauren Oyler on Judging and Being Judged

Unruly Writing: On the Problem with the Fragmented Art History Book

Beyond Resolutions: A Closer Look at “The New Year Poem” as an Act of Resistance

Here are the winners of the 2024 Silvers-Dudley Prizes for literary and arts journalism.

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