The Millions Interview

Life-Long Obsessions: The Millions Interviews Claire Cameron

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Grief doesn’t go away, it’s something you live with. And hopefully it becomes something that makes you stronger. I suppose that’s why it keeps coming up in my work, because I’m trying to figure it out.
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Essays

Eight for Eight: A Literary Reader for Passover

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What follows is a literary sampling inspired by Pesach: eight books for the eight nights of the holiday, choices that amplify Passover themes and honor writing itself.
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Essays

Abortion and Fiction

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God may have His opinions, but in literature -- as in life -- human judgment and stigma seem to prevail.
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Reviews

Where Fiction Heralds Facts: On Armando Lucas Correa’s ‘The German Girl’

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Correa writes to remind us of the deadly consequences of closed borders, neglected refugees, and maligned and forgotten immigrants.
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Reviews

To Open Borders: ‘Him, Me, Muhammad Ali’

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It's a book for this oppressive electoral season, where presidential politics are ugly and destructive, and demagoguery is endeavoring to trample a core American truth: Our country’s strength derives from open borders.
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Two Women, Two Lives, Two Stories: Together, but Brutally Alone

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With 'Eleven Hours,' Erens continues interrogating the core contradiction that threads through two earlier novels: The simultaneity of twinness and aloneness.
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Lighter, Smaller, Thinner: On Lost Girls and Lost Mothers

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To what should girls aspire when an entire culture, including a culture of smart literary women, values them for how little of them there is?
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Essays

The Rosenbergs Live: On Nostalgia and Red Scare Realities

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Neither of our parents deserved the death penalty.
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Essays

Beethoven Got There First

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The Grand Experimenter, it turns out, was Ludwig van Beethoven. This musical colossus, completely deaf, his personal affairs in chaos, perennially behind in his finances, unwell and unloved, reworked the string quartet in ways that continue to bewilder and astonish.
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Reviews

When the Stars Align: On Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries

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Under the sign of Libra, the reading public will be gifted that rarest literary treasure, a book of such dazzling breadth and scope that it defies any label short of masterpiece.
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