Decolonizing the Card Catalog
A Howard University librarian named Dorothy Porter made it her mission to collect and preserve works related to the global black experience.
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The Millions Top 10
The Slow Bloom of ‘Suite for Barbara Loden’
This 2018 publication of the novel brings closure to a 50-year saga, coinciding with the height of the #MeToo movement, which has given women everywhere renewed strength through common vulnerabilities.
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The Fire in Fiction
In the wake of the Notre Dame fire in Paris, Victor Hugo's classic novel, 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame,' has risen to the top of France's bestseller list.
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Can a Myth Grow Up?: The Poet Frank Stanford at Second Sight
The real question about the cult-hero of American poetry has now become: “What are we gonna do with this motherfucker?”
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I Have to Write Differently Now: The Millions Interviews Jennifer Acker
I was bouncing back and forth between people’s individual views about how the story should be told. I just needed to find the person whose vision aligned with my own.
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The Future United States of America
In Victor LaValle and John Joseph Adams's new anthology, they gather a group of writers to imagine the country's future using speculative fiction.
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Missives from Another World: Literature of Parallel Universes
Like a dream where unfamiliar rooms are discovered in one’s own house, the alternate history has a spooky quality to it, and the mere existence of such conjecture forces us to confront profound metaphysical questions.
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Literary Testimony: Fernando Aramburu Tells the Basque Story
When all is said and done, a novel is a means whereby we impose order on human experience, always leaving to the readers the possibility of reaching their own interpretations.
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Death and Taxes
Souvankham Thammavongsa's new fiction is required reading for anyone who's ever had a meltdown in an accountant's office.
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‘Ungovernable’: Featured Nonfiction from Therese Oneill
Every moment you remain childless is another beat of your heart echoing down a meaningless eternity.
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