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Riverhead
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Álvaro Enrigue on “Now I Surrender”
“Books just grow like trees. You cannot control them. They become something different than what you thought it was.”
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What Do the PDFs Say about This?: Brandon Taylor and Stephanie Insley Hershinow
“What are the systems of power in this fictional context andthe story world I’m making? What are the stakes? What are the values?”
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It’s Not Only Human Stories Worth Telling: Sigrid Nunez’s Animal Novels
Why are animals so central to Sigrid Nunez’s thinking about the status of fiction?
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You Write Because You Want to Feel Free: Katie Kitamura and Alexander Manshel
“I grew up with this very firm sense that there were multiple places that I could consider a home, rather than homes simply.”
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Groff and the Radical Act of Paying Attention
“I had read Groff all wrong, subjecting her to a sexist and dismissive logic.”
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Heal Thyself?
How do current social and political arrangements limit our opportunities for feeling better?
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On Our Nightstands: February 2023
A behind-the-scenes look at what Public Books editors and staff have been reading this month.
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A Woman’s Working-Class Experimentalism
Where do working-class women who are literary and experimental find, first, their models, and next, their readership?
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“Everything Possible with Everything Given”
There are so many utopias. Could one be a small collective of nuns, performing their chores, far from the disasters of the 12th century?
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On Our Nightstands: September 2021
A behind-the-scenes look at what Public Books editors and staff have been reading this month.
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Public Picks 2021
Each May we send our readers into summer with a curated list of the titles that dazzled, challenged, and inspired us most over the past year (or so).
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The Asian American Novel in Our Time of Hate
What does it mean to write—and read—an American novel in the wake of anti-Asian racism and hate crimes, events connected to a history of Asian exclusion?
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Spatial Abolition and Disability Justice
Revealing the multiple histories of disability justice can expand how we think of and design the places we build.
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Empathy beyond Therapy
Sigrid Nunez’s fiction inspires the question: What would it mean to make caring for others into an explicitly public priority?
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On Our Nightstands: June 2020
A behind-the-scenes look at what Public Books editors and staff have been reading this month.
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What Can “Women’s Fiction” Do for Women?
“I am the proud and happy writer of popular fiction,” says novelist Jennifer Weiner, “and I would never argue that it matters as much as the award-winning …
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Summer Reads: Pan-African Literature
To celebrate Africa Day, May 25, Zimbabwean information project Kubatana curated its top-10 titles from Exclusive Books’ Pan-African Writing …
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Fairy Tales of Race and Nation
In its own allusive way, Helen Oyeyemi’s Gingerbread considers the imminent departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union. A textbook in …
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Sinkholes and Saviors
Few writers would dare to pick as the title of a collection of 11 short stories the name of a state that is home to 21 million people, more than a million alligators, countless snakes, and a few hundred critically endangered panthers. The word “Florida” cues readers to dream big, to demand the bizarre, to…
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Francisco Cantú Talks Borders, Rhetoric, and Climate Change
Twenty pages into my first reading of The Line Becomes a River, I laid the book …
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The Gay Conversion Therapy Memoir
“To continually go before God and ask for forgiveness and make promises you know you can’t keep is more than I can take. I feel it is making a mockery of God and …
