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The Winter Zoo

Visiting animals when most humans stay away
Kate Zambreno

A Moral Education

In praise of filth
Garth Greenwell


Monstrous Hybrids and the Conjuring of Legacy

A visit to a namesake scrapyard changes a novelist's sense of inheritance
Idra Novey

2023 Pulitzer Prize Winners and Finalists

The Heart of Fiction

Storytelling, experience, and truth
Hernan Diaz
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Community

Finding company on and off the page
Carl Phillips
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Drama

On Sugarland: A Play

An excerpt and annotation
Aleshea Harris

Penultimate Activities

Alejandro Zambra
translated by Megan McDowell

Foreigner

Cristina Rivera Garza
translated by Sarah Booker

The Illumination of Santiago

Nona Fernández
translated by Idra Novey

Moral? There is no moral but some observations about pleasure and monotony: they are powerful.

Alejandro Varela Grand Openings

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Throwing Punches in a Dive Bar

Three years into the pandemic, what does care look like?
Jordan Kisner

Nothing Is a Memory

Remembering Bernadette Mayer
Daniel Poppick
Portfolio

Home Isn't One Place

A textile tribute to the Afghan diaspora
Hangama Amiri
Portfolio

Terrains of the Imaginary

Finding escape in survey maps
Geoff Manaugh

Portfolio

Nobody Knows That You Are Gay

Imagining a queer archive
Robyn Day

Portfolio

Exile and Memory

Reimagining Iran through 200-year-old portraits
Amak Mahmoodian

The Journalist and the Photographer

Janet Malcolm’s Still Pictures
Brian Dillon

Preferences

Maureen N. McLane

Good Harbor Beach

Maureen N. McLane

You Were the Bird

Petite Maman and the axis between mother and daughter
Georgia Cloepfil

Ode to Babel

The ecstasy of Michael K. Williams
Roger Reeves

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Summer, 1964

Victoria Chang

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

Books

Wong May's Poetry of Exile

In search of a language of unbelonging
Hao Guang Tse (谢皓光)

The Mother's Rage

Elena Ferrante and the torment of maternal love
Josh Cohen

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