Dissecting Desire: The Millions Interviews Sarah Gerard
Toxic relationships are hurtful, and exist on a continuum of uncaring and manipulative behavior, ranging from microaggressions to violence. It haunts us because it hurts us.
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Brit Bennett on the Opposite Sides of the Color Line
Brit Bennett discusses her latest book, The Vanishing Half, which follows twin sisters as one lives life as a white woman and one as a Black woman.
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‘Want’: Featured Fiction from Lynn Steger Strong
Want won praise from Kirkus, which called it "wise, unflinching, and compelling," and Vulture, which hailed it as "a defining novel of our age of left-behind families."
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Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Nugent, Tenorio, Martin, and More
Here’s a quick look at some notable books—new titles from the likes of Benjamin Nugent, Lysley Tenorio, and Andrew Martin—that are publishing this week.
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Colson Whitehead on Making Eccentric Ideas Plausible
Colson Whitehead reflects on the fantastic fiction he consumed as a child and how it made the most eccentric ideas seem plausible.
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Nobody’s Martyr: The Millions Interviews Shannon Reed
I do try to love all of my students, and meet them where they are, then help them move a little bit further down the road.
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Our Private and Public Lives: The Millions Interviews Sanaë Lemoine
I could feel myself becoming restless and wanting my narrator to grow with me, make wiser choices, but instead I had to stay in her world, refine it and dig deeper into the questions I was exploring.
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A Visit from the Goon Squad, a Decade Later
Jennifer Egan's A Visit from the Goon Squad made its debut a decade ago, and the author reflected on the book's trajectory since its publication.
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Must-Read Poetry: July 2020
Our own Nick Ripatrazone takes a look at new books of poetry from Cleopatra Mathis, Alice Oswald, Karen Solie, and Charlotte Pence.
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Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Stein, Sullivan, Baker, and More
This week, we've got our eye on new titles from the likes of Leigh Stein, J. Courtney Sullivan, and Silvia Moreno-Garcia.
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