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Fiction, Essays & More
Joyride
David Abrams
Zeildorf had been on guard duty since 2 p.m. and he’d been paired with Suarez. That was the first bad thing. Suarez was known for his weak bladder—compared...
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Book RecsAuthor Picks
Pay It Forward Book List
Josh Kendall
Joshua Kendall, editorial director of Mulholland Books, recommends five books that were recommended to him that are sure to keep you turning the pages
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Fiction, Essays & More
Family Histories
Roxana Robinson
In this essay, award-winning author Roxana Robinson writes about the fascinating subject of her uncle, Dr. William Beecher Scoville, a neurosurgeon...
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Book RecsThe Book That Made Me a Reader
Dina Nayeri on Behrangi, Golding and Ishiguro
Dina Nayeri
I’ve become a reader three times. The first time, I was barely six and lived in Iran, under the Islamic Republic.
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Fiction, Essays & More
A Certainty
Rumaan Alam
When you get old, your skin goes soft. Like the pages of a library book, my grandmother’s hands, papery and cool. She’d take my hand in hers...
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Fiction, Essays & More
A Tribute to Edith Grossman
Honoring one of the most celebrated literary translators of our time on the occasion of her 80th birthday.
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Fiction, Essays & MoreWhy Fiction Matters
First Fiction
Alexander Chee
There is an exercise I have my students do, one I invented. Think of a story your family tells about you to any newcomer, usually from your early childhood.
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Fiction, Essays & More
Amulets: A Slideshow
Roberta Allen
Eyes closed, Tara squeezed the amulet so tightly in her hand that she shrank the island of Taniqua, her home, to the size of a studio apartment in Manhattan
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Book RecsJunior Edition
Junior Edition #43
Celia McGee
Featuring books by Nicola Davies, Daniel José Older, Peter Stone, and Nova Ren Suma!
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Fiction, Essays & More
Power Ballads
Will Boast
It’s worse than dating, I told Kate. Every band you join, every job you take, it’s always the same: That first awkward jam, feeling each other...