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    The Sequel

    In Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Sequel, Anna Williams-Bonner, the wife of recently deceased author Jacob Finch Bonner, is loving her new life as the widow of a man who wrote a blockbuster novel—if ...

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    Book Tours Behind the Scenes

    In The Sequel by Jean Hanff Korelitz, readers get a taste of what authors go through in the rite of publishing passage known as 'the book tour.' For new or established authors, a book tour usually ...

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    My Good Bright Wolf

    Sarah Moss has been afflicted with the eating disorder anorexia nervosa since her pre-teen years but was able to keep the condition under some control for decades. During this period she completed a D...

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    Playwright John Webster

    In her memoir My Good Bright Wolf, Sarah Moss conjures up an imaginary wolf spirit to support her childhood self. She claims the idea came from a line in one of the first poems she memorized, "A ...

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    Canoes

    The short stories in Maylis de Kerangal's new collection, Canoes, translated from the French by Jessica Moore, are all loosely concerned with the human voice. In one story, a woman notices that her ...

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    Buffalo Bill and His Wild West Show

    In Maylis de Kerangal's new short story collection, Canoes, a woman moves from Paris to Golden, Colorado, a mining town in the foothills of the Rockies. At the top of Lookout Mountain, overlooking...

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    Absolution

    Ten years ago, the literary landscape was changed forever when Jeff VanderMeer became the "King of Weird Fiction" with his Southern Reach trilogy: Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance (2014). A ...

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    Development and Habitat Loss in Florida

    In August 2024, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) (under direction from the governor) proposed to clear land in nine state parks to make room for tourist-friendly developments&...

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    The Message

    It does not surprise me that Ta-Nehisi Coates' The Message is one of the most important books I've read this year. What does surprise me is that I can already feel how it has fundamentally shifted ...

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    Primary Sources: Stories of Palestinian Life

    Ta-Nehisi Coates' The Message implores readers to consider listening to marginalized people speak on their own experiences. This seems uncontroversial until Coates sheds light on his findings that a ...

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    The House of Doors

    Every July, I take on the overly ambitious goal of reading all of the novels chosen as longlist finalists for the celebrated Booker Prize award, and every year I fail miserably. This year, of the ...

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    Sun Yat-sen

    In the novel The House of Doors, Lesley Hamlyn volunteers as a translator for Sun Yat-sen's political movement in Penang, Malaysia. Sun Yat-sen is one of the foremost figures in Chinese political ...

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