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McNeal, the new play by Ayad Akhtar, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Disgraced, focuses on an egocentric, self-destructive white...

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The following is from Tom Newlands' Only Here, Only Now. Newlands is a multiply neurodivergent Scottish writer. He is a...

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Rani Choudhury Must Die by Adiba Jaigirdar Meghna and Rani used to be best friends. They’re not anymore, and Meghna...

November 13, 2024, 10:19am Jeff Sharlet, author of The Undertow, and one of our very best (and bravest) writers engaging...

Have you ever read a story about women that was so horrible and so fantastic it made you cringe? Did...

In Vermeer’s Woman in Blue Reading a Letter, the observer is drawn into a simple domestic scene: the titular woman...

Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more....

November 12, 2024, 8:43am It’s a week after America’s latest, and far from greatest, election, a day that many of...

If you’ve read only one book about the Spanish Civil War, chances are it’s either Ernest Hemingway’s novel For Whom...

Author Leigh Harlen has organized an online auction to raise money for the Trans Lifeline, which provides trans peer support...

November 11, 2024, 1:14pm It’s the week after the election. You’re inundated with takes, ranging from the knee-jerk-libidinal appeal to...

The Mystery of the Haunted Boarding School Bathroom Yáng Shuāng-zǐ Share article Tang-Kue-Tê / Winter Melon Tea by Yáng Shuāng-zǐ,...

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