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Should Ethnicity Limit What a Fiction Writer Can Write?
How can a Westerner know what it’s like to be Chinese? Where does cultural heritage end and the universal human experience begin?
Memoir & Essay
"The older one grows, the more one likes indecency." — Virginia Woolf
A Life in Waves
William Finnegan discusses his life as a surfer, and the valuable lessons he has gained from his travels.
The Evolution of Comics From Batman to Burkas
Like their counterparts in the West, South Asians are using comics and its superhero genre to challenge cultural norms and construct alternative narratives.
Industry, Ingenuity, and Fracture: On John McPhee
Daniel solomon explores the life and various writings of John McPhee.
Old Guys Have More Fun
Jerry Stahl on fatherhood, his literary career, toxicity in everyday life, and what the odds might be for survival.
How Vivian Gornick Saved My Life: A True Story
Katherine Taylor writes about her experience with a ruptured spinal disk and Vivian Gornick's new book, "The Odd Woman in the City."
On Looking into Sherlock Holmes
The line between fiction and reality blurred almost immediately for Holmes readers.
An Individual Miracle
Those who are on the road from Auschwitz are all exceptions, just as every road from Auschwitz is an exception.
The Page Unturned
Marcia Aldrich interviews Jill Talbot.
Treasure Hunting: Maggie Mertens Interviews Huan Hsu
Instead of a straightforward treasure hunt, Hsu found a family as broken apart by war and complex Chinese history as the porcelain shards he discovered.
Enigmatic Interiors: On Love, Death, Divorce, and Michael White’s New “Travels in Vermeer”
The book is deceptive … a travel book that is really an art book; an art book that is really about love, death, drinking, and other kinds of grief.
Writer on Fire
Joni Tevis on writing and revising, atomic literature, and the meaning of apocalypse.
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