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A Year in Reading: Christine Coulson
I like books to feel like going to an art exhibition, an experience that consumes you in a single visit and then lingers.
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A Year in Reading: Athena Dixon
I decided to make my year of reading much more focused on the fun, escapism, and curiosity I’d been missing in prior years.
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A Year in Reading: Joanna Biggs
Victorian verse novels aside, some of my favorite reading this year has been my friends’ texts.
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A Year in Reading: James Frankie Thomas
I confess that I don’t log or track the books I read, so I’m going on pure memory here.
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A Year in Reading: Kristen R. Ghodsee
I spent a lot of this year ruminating on time: what it is, how we measure it, and why we’re so loathe to waste it.
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A Year in Reading: Taylor Byas
To learn how to love books again after my Ph.D., I started a reading notebook.
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A Year in Reading: Isle McElroy
Every year I get to the end of the year and feel as though I haven’t read any books. This year was no different.
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A Year in Reading: Damion Searls
Not only the communion of reading but the community with other readers—sometimes more distant, sometimes less—has certainly been one of my greatest comforts this year.
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A Year in Reading: Jenn Shapland
Books that shook me; books I ate up with a spoon; books that pissed me off (in a useful way)
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A Year in Reading: Emily Wilson
One of the big themes of my reading life this year has been the multiple ways a single story can be told.
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The Quiet Exhilaration of Reading in Italian
Reading Italian literature submerged me into a kind of intoxication—an explosion of sound and thought.
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The Forgotten History of the Chapter
The chapter possesses the trick of vanishing while in the act of serving its various purposes.
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José Donoso Saw the Future of Latin American Literature
American readers have largely forgotten the single greatest writer to come from the Latin American Boom: Chilean novelist José Donoso.
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Play and Rules: On Megan Fernandes and the Poetics of Kink
The poems of 'I Do Everything I’m Told' pursue an ever more perfect mode of submission.
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