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I’m a late bloomer. So I can’t help but admire the blue flame of prodigy. It took me eleven years to publish my first novel. A...

Maybe the trees won’t impress someonelooking for June or a new lover.There are people ahead carrying flowers,unaware of our many mistakes.Let me imagine you now in...

Charles Rosen’s first review in these pages appeared just over fifty years ago, in the February 26, 1970, issue, and it was an absolute stinker. The...

In the late 1860s Émile Zola decided he wanted to write something on a scale equal to his colossal ambition. He had already published a few...

At Hyperallergic, Valentina Di Liscia speaks to Hammer Museum curator Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi, who compiled a 32-hour Spotify playlist based on James Baldwin‘s sprawling record collection, which...

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Military fantasy books are a sub-genre that examines the lifecycle of war in fantasy settings. The lifecycle of war is made up of the brewing conflict...

There are—to begin, unforgivably, with a cliche—two kinds of readers: those who forget all about secret bookcases and gardens and wardrobes once they’ve reached adulthood, and...

The movie industry had to suffer a pause unlike anything it had ever seen before when theaters had to be shuttered due to the Covid-19 pandemic....