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Why Han Kang’s Nobel Matters

My mother’s generation experienced unspeakable violence. Han found the words for it.
Yung In Chae

A Head Is a Territory of Light

Seeking answers about my migraines
Tan Tuck Ming

Is Blasphemy Illiberal?

Salman Rushdie’s thoroughly modern controversies
Len Gutkin

Dandelion seeds attached to stem.
Books

The Unthinkable

How do you put into words the boundless pain of losing a child?
David L. Ulin
Photo of Alexander Chee; photo of Julia Cho; photo of Susan Choi; photo of Cathy Park Hong
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Finding a Literary Inheritance

Four Korean American writers on jeong and the elusiveness of home
Alexander Chee,
Julia Cho,
Susan Choi,
and
Cathy Park Hong

Meaning is in crisis. And we are embroiled, everywhere, in contests over meaning—which are also contests of power, contests over living. And dying.

Christina Sharpe The Shapes of Grief

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National Book Award Finalists

Fady Joudah

The poet on how the war in Gaza changed his work
Aria Aber

Abstraction and Nonsense

The real in fiction
Percival Everett

Writing in Pictures

Richard Scarry and the art of children’s literature
Chris Ware

Vintage Merch

Buying someone else’s history
Hanif Abdurraqib

The Path to Playwright

Discovering my literary hero in an unlikely place
Sonya Kelly

Mister Durand

An excerpt from a novel in progress
Deirdre Madden

Chantal Akerman’s Elusive Interiors

What the filmmaker’s portrayal of women reveals—and withholds
Emily LaBarge

How Mike Kelley Became Himself

The artist’s search for subcultural America
Jonathan Griffin
Drama

The Hundred Flowers Project

An excerpt and annotation

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