Obsession, Collection, and Connection: On Pixar’s ‘Soul’ and Jazmina Barrera’s On Lighthouses
Writing that takes a pin and drives it through obsession’s abdomen, splaying it open like one of Nabokov’s butterfly specimens.
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The Millions Top 10
The Unruly Energy of Ursula K. Le Guin
Colin Burrow reflects on how Ursula K. Le Guin's narrative prowess flourished within the constraints of science fiction and children's literature.
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The Millions Top Ten: December 2020
In the final month of 2020, we retired two books to our Hall of Fame: one from a debut author and the other from a two-time HoF veteran.
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‘The Divines’: Featured Fiction from Ellie Eaton
An excerpt from a debut novel Booklist calls "sharp and haunting."
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Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Eaton, Hubbard, Salesses, and More
Here's a quick look at some notable books—new titles from Ladee Hubbard, Matthew Salesses, Ellie Eaton, and more—that are publishing this week.
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On Nature and Nationalism with Sarah Moss
As she wrote Summerwater, Moss was thinking about the attitudes about public space that emerge in moments of popular nationalism such as Brexit.
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Letter from the Capitol
The terrible logic of America is that our deepest nightmares and desires always have a way of enacting themselves, of moving from celluloid to reality.
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Carmen Maria Machado on the Darkness Behind Patricia Highsmith
Carmen Maria Machado reflects on the complicated, "fundamentally difficult" work of suspense writer Patricia Highsmith.
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Listening to the Voices in His Head: The Millions Interviews Jim Gauer
Would Gaddis have been able to write JR if he hadn’t been forced to work in PR and learn about the business and legal worlds?
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Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Saunders, Enríquez, Gurganus, and More
Here's a quick look at some notable books—new titles from George Saunders, Mariana Enríquez, Allan Gurganus, and more—that are publishing this week.
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