Complicate the Border: Octavio Solis Discusses ‘Retablos’
This is what Solis means when he says we must learn to stand on the hyphen. He’s Mexican-American, which, in other words, means neither-nor.
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The Millions Top 10
The Wisdom of Women Shines in Najla Jraissaty Khoury’s ‘Pearls on a Branch: Oral Tales’
The stories are full of wisdom and warnings. Pearls on a Branch is unique in emphasizing women as the creators, audience, and protagonists of such tales.
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What I Saw When I Really Looked: My Late Brother, Heroin, and Grief
How would our relationship have been different if, while he lived, I had really seen my brother? What if I had welcomed his vision of the world into my own?
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Eleven Ways of Looking at a Sunset
There's something countercultural in reinvesting the sunset with its significance—in seeing it as that portal which shepherds us into the province of night.
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Another September: Creating Life and Art in a Terrifying World
I was already seven weeks. If the story were fiction, I would dismiss the ending as unrealistic. A deus ex machina. Contrived, overly convenient.
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Motherhood Is Life-Shattering: The Millions Interviews Kirsten Lunstrum
I write less than I might have if I hadn’t become a parent. That’s just the truth. But my fiction has deepened with the experience of raising other humans.
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The Magic of Being Out of Touch: Ignorance as the Last Stand of Romanticism
Returns to childhood, hedonism, intelligence: These have clearly lost their punch. Ignorance, ironically enough, is a harder Romantic object to dismiss.
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Kathleen Kent and Laird Hunt on Witches and Wickedness in American History and Literature
When I asked my grandmother if Martha Carrier had truly been a witch, she told me, “There are no such things as witches, Sweetheart, just ferocious women.”
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Changing Our Narratives through ‘Days of Our Lives’
I couldn’t help imagining a lost episode of Days of Our Lives where Nicole bugs Donald Trump, hears what he said about grabbing women, and plots a revenge.
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