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2018 has been politically dismal, but buoyant on the literary front, and the confluence of these two things have made this a year in slow reading...

Out this week: The Collected Poems of Robert Bly; Petty Theft by Nicholas Friedman; The Complete Poems of A.R. Ammons: Volume 1; and The Best American Magazine Writing 2018. For more on these...

For most neocons, however, journalism has never been more than a Leninist means to an end—to form an intellectual vanguard. For it is political influence that...

Below are a handful of the many excellent books that got me through the year. As a list, it’s far from exhaustive, and not particularly systematic....

Shelley Jackson: “As a Writer, You’re Already Dead” The author of “Riddance,” on the dead words that haunt her writing I s there a difference between writing a...

Longtime listener, first-time caller. I’m excited to be here talking about my Year in Reading. This was the first full year in almost a decade that...

I was proud of the literature published and celebrated this year. It is always hard to choose, but especially at a time like now, when there...

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What if our stories were more sympathetic towards monsters? Good picture of me, I look cute here. (Photo by Fabian Reus) When I was eight years old,...