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Other Shapes: On Kate Briggs’s “The Long Form”
Grace Byron reviews Kate Briggs’s “The Long Form.”
Fiction
"Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." — Mark Twain
Allegedly Rational: On Andrew Lipstein’s “The Vegan”
Tadhg Hoey reviews Andrew Lipstein’s “The Vegan.”
You Mustn’t Pretend You Didn’t Know: Arundhati Roy on the Condition of India Under Modi
Arundhati Roy accepts the Charles Veillon Foundation’s 45th European Essay Prize for lifetime achievement.
Mr. Bellow’s Planets: A Conversation with Zachary Leader
George Stanica speaks with Zachary Leader, the biographer of novelist Saul Bellow.
The Assembly of Odd: On Rhoda Huffey’s “31 Paradiso”
Greg Bills reviews Rhoda Huffey’s new novel “31 Paradiso.”
Prohibition and Hope: The Politics of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Writings
Rani Neutill explores the ways Jhumpa Lahiri’s fiction engages with the legacies of colonialism and the pressures of assimilationism.
Turkey’s Feminist Autofictionalist: On Tezer Özlü’s “Cold Nights of Childhood”
Kaya Genç reviews Turkish author Tezer Özlü’s newly translated novel “Cold Nights of Childhood.”
I Haven’t Got a Life at the Moment: On Rosemary Tonks’s “The Halt During the Chase”
Leo Lasdun reviews the new reissue of Rosemary Tonks’s 1972 novel “The Halt During the Chase.”
A Particularly Intimate Mourning: On Susie Boyt’s “Loved and Missed”
Eric Gudas reviews Susie Boyt’s “Loved and Missed.”
Art Receives No Mercy but Only Gives It: On Ismail Kadare’s “A Dictator Calls”
Cory Oldweiler reviews Albanian author Ismail Kadare’s new novel “A Dictator Calls.”
Parenting Is Always a Ghost Story: A Conversation with Yael Goldstein-Love
Claire Jarvis talks with Yael Goldstein-Love about her new novel “The Possibilities.”
Where Life Is Precious, Life Is Precious. And Surely That’s Not Here: On Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s “Chain-Gang All-Stars”
Salem James Martinez reviews Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s “Chain-Gang All-Stars.”
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