Embracing the Mysteries in Beverly Cleary’s Ramona Quimby Books
Adrienne Raphel looks back at Beverly Cleary's beloved Ramona Quimby series, and notes that the books are riddled with odd discrepancies that are both puzzling and charming.
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The Millions Top 10
‘The End of the Day’: Featured Fiction from Bill Clegg
An excerpt from a novel Kirkus called "A moody, atmospheric domestic drama with a mystery novel somewhere in its family tree."
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Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Robinson, Machado, and More
This week brings new work from Marilynne Robinson, Carmen Maria Machado, K-Ming Chang, Nick Hornby, Billy Collins, and Matt Haig.
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Isabel Allende on the Many Dimensions of Reality
Isabelle Allende discusses her newest book, A Long Petal of the Sea, and how the world’s inexplicable nature drives her writing.
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Processing Trauma: On Nadia Owusu
To heal I would need to look inward as well as outward. I would need to examine my memories. I would need to interrogate the stories I told myself—about myself, about my family, about the world.
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Matthew Salesses on Calling Language Into Question
Matthew Salesses discusses how he shaped the language of adoption to fit his own experience.
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The Light and the Dark: On Ali Smith’s ‘Summer’
Summer brings us a completion of the cycle of seasons: suffering to hope, green to gray, life to death, and back again. Or all of them at once. Or not really at all.
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Letter from Wartime
What I’m writing about is what it feels like to be living through the blood-red dusk of a nation.
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Robin Coste Lewis on the Comfort of Literature
Robin Coste Lewis shares how she makes her students feel safe during uncertain times by providing refuge in art.
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Correcting History: On C Pam Zhang’s ‘How Much of These Hills Is Gold’
We need many more novels like this one: novels that breathe life into people who have gone unseen too long.
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