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Kafka to Kurt Wolff: “It struck me that Starke, as an illustrator, might want to draw the insect itself. Not that, please not that! I do not want to restrict him, but only to make this plea out of my deeper knowledge of the story. The insect itself cannot be depicted. It cannot…
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The fairy tales compiled by eager young literary types in Shanghai in the twenties, under the editorship of the fictional Lady Lin Lan, were part of a…
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by Ann Kjellberg, editor If we're going to stop engaging with cultures that are tainted by brutality, pretty soon we're not going have much left. How we…
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How a bookseller orders their collection dictates the logic and serendipities of a bookstore’s unique browse, and all classifications result in…
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Women pioneers of stand-up had to work the obvious fact of their being women into the act or around the act or through a character or through multiple…
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by Ann Kjellberg, editor How does writing make it out of one language and culture and into another? In America, the work of keeping American…
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Fragments from a reading meditation on pregnancy and childbirth
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In an autobiographical sketch written in 1827, Charles Lamb pleaded guilty to “obtruding upon the Public” with “Two slight crown Octavos … pompously…
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