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Jim Shepard on Two Very Different Writers

I was the first in my family to go to college, and my father’s not-so-secret plan for getting me there involved A) my getting good grades, and...

ConeWhite cone descended in sound blisterThere were the people having skin removed: to make the hood over our last eveningCone, White cone...

In this essay, author Malka Older reflects on her time as a humanitarian aid worker in Darfur and how it influenced her near-future political...

He doesn’t look at me, but furrows his brow and stares intently at the splayed pages, as if reading is very hard work. After enjoying this charade...

Look, this is how a heart works. The right atrium receives blood from the legs and arms and pours it into the right ventricle

Everyone knows Edward P. Jones’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Known World. Or at least they should. Regularly, I find myself talking...

After a restless night—one of many in a restless year–when he awoke several times feeling that he was on the verge of something, a cold...

The author of the new thriller Afterlife has selected six novels that present our recognizable world… but with a twist.

Dr. Yu’s office was festooned with dangling models of vertebrae in various sizes, mostly human in scale, some incredibly tiny

Frances was fifty-nine and Peanut was twenty-five, and because of this they were often distracted by the looks of others in public