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  1. 41 minutes ago

    For when you want to escape real life, but not TOO much, we have eight novels that play with ambiguity between truth and fiction.

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  2. 1 hour ago

    . sent me this interview with , and reading it is my mid-work treat for today I have been bothering her with my reading updates and now will bother all of you
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  3. 2 hours ago

    "The novel acts as a warning against xenophobia and a call for radical collaboration." - on Le Guin's "The Left Hand of Darkness"

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  4. 3 hours ago

    The struggle of living with an alcoholic partner, helped along by a timely read of Mary McCarthy's 1954 novel, "The Group."

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    Apr 15

    "I would love for readers to expect more white American women writers to write fiction about why so many of them voted Trump into office." I want to steal Elaine Castillo's brain.

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  6. 3 hours ago

    We like big brains and we cannot lie. You other readers can’t deny. That when a contest comes in about knowledge, don’t refrain—from the words that form in your brain. Let's get sprung!

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  7. 4 hours ago

    I guess you could call it a... Fire Festival?

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  8. 4 hours ago

    Has the Mueller report coverage provided you with enough harsh reality for the day? We invite you to read our very very very normal interview with Carmen Maria Machado as a reprieve.

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  9. 5 hours ago

    🎶🎵 Under pressure 🎵🎶

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  10. 6 hours ago

    "Moolaadé," a Senegalese film about female genital mutilation, examines the power of women to stand together against intense oppression and shame.

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  11. 7 hours ago

    In common parlance, "All-American" usually signals an extremely narrow range of people and experiences. It's definitely time to change that.

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  12. 8 hours ago

    Please enjoy this very ordinary interview with about her introduction to the new edition of J. Sheridan LeFanu's 19th-century vampire novel, "Carmilla."

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  13. 21 hours ago

    Warning: deep-nerd word count obsessing ahead.

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  14. 22 hours ago

    Ow, my heart. 💔

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  15. 23 hours ago

    "In losing Notre Dame, it feels almost, as if we have lost all that we have graven into its stones in our own hand: all the memories we associate with it... all the stories we love that let the light into its high vaulting interior."

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  16. 24 hours ago

    "In their lives (and creativity) Black women encouraged deep levels of introspection and contemplation needed for me to recognize that there’s really no limit to what we can do."

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  17. Apr 17

    It's Wednesday afternoon and you could probably use a laugh so you don't ruminate on how far away the weekend feels. We got you.

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  18. Apr 17

    How much do you know about Filipinx American history? Our list from "America is Not the Heart" author Elaine Castillo is here to help you with that.

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    Apr 17

    Shango comes to East Harlem in issue 022 of :

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  20. Apr 17

    "It’s very easy to look at the Neo-Nazis in the news now and think that they’re monsters... I’m much more worried about the one that you don’t see on television, the one that’s working next to you in your office who is extremely likable."

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