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Begging your indulgence
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Ann Kjellberg
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Review: Christian Caryl on the Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement
There may be barely a trace of anti-Soviet dissidence in its birthplace, Moscow, but does its influence linger?
Notebook: Listening Session
In 2024 record numbers are doing their reading by ear. What’s going on, and what does it mean for writers and readers?
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Ann Kjellberg
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Review: Michael Robbins on a new Baudelaire
A new translation shows “the text as disturbing intruders” beneath the morbid lyric persona
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Diary: Laura Kolb, From the Literary Annals of Women’s Deceit
In literature and life, women lie
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January 2025

Review: Cynthia Zarin on Mavis Gallant
Mavis Gallant’s stories—intricate, vivid, often hallucinatory—are series of mirrored prisms; each facet catches the light but throws it aslant
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Notebook: How Do Your Novels Grow?
Behind the scenes in an industry that struggles to reward and encourage great work
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Ann Kjellberg
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Review: (2) Ian Frazier, Tales of Adventure for Boys
Is it nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of fortune down in the garage?
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Review: (1) Ian Frazier, Tales of Adventure for Boys
Boys‘ dreams of glory in the post-adventure-story age
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Ann Kjellberg
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Diary: (2) Andrew Hui on the Birth of the Private Library
The Renaissance library was an aperture through which you contemplate the world and a retreat wherein you cultivate the self
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Diary: (1) Andrew Hui on the Birth of the Private Library
We gather in libraries, or take a voyage around our room, another way of gathering
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Review: Àlvaro Enrigue on Antonio di Benedetto
The slim volumes that may be the greatest works of mid-century Latin American Literature
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