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I Take No Pleasure in Having Written an “Eerily Prescient” Novel

I Take No Pleasure in Having Written an “Eerily Prescient” Novel

Kevin Nguyen on Why We Don’t Need Books to Tell Us About Our Current Political Moment

By Kevin Nguyen | May 6, 2025

A.M. Homes on Being—For Better or Worse—“a Very American Writer”

A.M. Homes on Being—For Better or Worse—“a Very American Writer”

The Unfolding in Conversation with Phil Klay">The Author of The Unfolding in Conversation with Phil Klay

By Literary Hub | October 13, 2022

What Does It Mean to Write a Political Novel?

What Does It Mean to Write a Political Novel?

Tobias Carroll: When Fury Meets Fiction

By Tobias Carroll | February 4, 2021

Roxane Gay: What Does a Political Story Look like in 2018?

Roxane Gay: What Does a Political Story Look like in 2018?

On Selecting This Year's 20 Best American Short Stories

By Roxane Gay | October 3, 2018

Why I Added, Then Deleted, Trump from My Novel

Why I Added, Then Deleted, Trump from My Novel

"These Additions, My Agent Noted, Were Not Very Good"

By Andrew Martin | July 10, 2018

On Writing Islamic Identity and Being Labeled a Political Writer

On Writing Islamic Identity and Being Labeled a Political Writer

A Conversation Between Leila Aboulela and Elnathan John

By Literary Hub | June 2, 2016

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