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Monstrous Hybrids and the Conjuring of Legacy
A visit to a namesake scrapyard changes a novelist's sense of inheritance
Idra Novey
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Moral? There is no moral but some observations about pleasure and monotony: they are powerful.
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Throwing Punches in a Dive Bar
Three years into the pandemic, what does care look like?
Jordan Kisner

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On Emancipation
What Hollywood has done to a much-circulated image of American slavery
Lauren Michele Jackson

On Anton Shammas's "Arabesques"
Revisiting the first major book in Hebrew by an Arab writer
Ratik Asokan

All at Once, the Multiverse Is Everywhere
Why today's movies, TV shows, and literature love branching timelines and many worlds
David M. de León