Origin Stories: On the Value of Comics
The world is vast and I'm unsure of how it works, but this comic is mine, and that's enough.
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The Millions Top 10
Ulysses: An Illustrated Edition
The Socratic Method: A Practitioner’s Handbook
When We Cease to Understand the World
The Morning Star: A Novel
The Penguin Modern Classics Book
Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel
These Precious Days: Essays
Matrix: A Novel
Beautiful World, Where Are You: A Novel
Bewilderment: A Novel
The William Trevor Reader: “Mrs. Silly”
Few things in fictional narrative more powerfully create a sense of realism than the reappearance of certain objects and people.
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In Case I Didn’t Survive: The Millions Interviews Devi Laskar
"During the raid, my editor’s voice came to me. I disappeared. I was very calm. I didn’t fight back. I became a reporter."
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Psalm 139
Are you content to engage in that most vile sin of this age—privileged disengagement—because the unprovoked atrocities being committed in Ukraine by Russians are too much to deal with? Then we are on different teams.
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Just Make Someone Feel Something: The Millions Interviews Bud Smith and Rae Buleri
"I come to fiction to suspend my disbelief. The book is a drug. I'm trying to take this drug. Get melted off this drug."
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The Hurting Kind: The Millions Interviews Ada Limón
"It is remarkable to me that I can be a changed person on the other side of one single poem. I have experienced something and now I am different."
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The William Trevor Reader: “The Death of Peggy Meehan”
It is the central job of fiction to tell how things come about, especially unlikely things like an otherwise sane man becoming sexually obsessed with the memory of a dead schoolgirl.
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Tuesday New Release Day: Starring Smith, Harpman, Haber, and More
Here’s a quick look at some notable books—new titles from Bud Smith, Jacqueline Harpman, Mark Haber, and more—that are publishing this week.
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Prayer Consists of Attention: On Reading as a Spiritual Practice
I realized that all words, even those contained in secular literature, have the potential to become prayers.
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