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I am a slow reader. And it has taken me nearly a lifetime to embrace this—to see this potential flaw as a feature not a bug...

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At the beginning of 2020 I decided I would keep a record of all the books I read this year. I try to set really easy,...

“The Hands of Dirty Children” by Alejandro Puyana We’re called the Crazy 9, but there are not always nine of us. We were nine before la...

The pandemic made 2020 a difficult time for acclaimed and emerging poets to share and promote their work. In spite of, or perhaps because of that,...

As we enter what’s sure to be a long, uncertain winter, we are also entering a time that I like to call “long night, long book”...

I’ll be honest: I cannot resist a doctor diary. I want to hear about all the weird medical things and how they all got solved, or...

With new releases from Elena Ferrante, Scholastique Mukasonga, Sayaka Murata, Dubravka Ugresic, and acclaimed translators Ann Goldstein, Jordan Stump, and Ellen Elias-Bursać, this past fall was...

Do your holiday celebrations always go as planned? If they do, you’re luckier than I’ve been in my 42 years on this planet and you’re definitely...

My first cell phone happened when I went away to a small rural college in Iowa. Back then, there were only a couple spots to even...