The Queens of Repulsive Realism
A new wave of "Repulsive Realism" features characters who manufacture and revel in their own mire and rebel against packaged femininity.
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The Millions Top 10
The Choir of Man: Max Porter’s ‘Lanny’ Wants You to Listen
Porter's second book is an attempt to capture a village, entirely, in language, and it does so by trying to represent the village’s breadth of narrative voices.
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‘Sing to It’: Featured Fiction from Amy Hempel
If she was home at night in her husband’s bed, did he care what she did with her days?
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W.S. Merwin, Surrounded by Green
A. Hope Jahren remembers W.S. Merwin with an evocative description of visiting the Merwin Conservancy, an island filled with trees Merwin planted himself.
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Ferlinghetti at 100: An Appreciation
He’s our longest-living ambassador of the written word, a relic from a time when a certain type of person treated books as sacred objects rather than as products that could be sold at a profit.
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The Unimaginable Became Reality: The Millions Interviews Shashi Tharoor
When you break the barriers of civility that help hold certain standards of conduct in a society together, and therefore keep us all together, you make anything possible.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom Is a Public Intellectual
For Guernica, Roxane Gay interviews Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom about her new essay collection, Thick.
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We Did Everything and Knew Nothing: The Millions Interviews Susan Choi
All fiction writers write out of their deepest, most intimate personal experiences, even if some of them try to deny it or disguise it.
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Caitlin Kunkel Wants to Turn You On—Equitably
Satire is like punching someone in the back of the head—it makes them turn around and look at what you’re saying, at the very least!
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