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The poet Mary Oliver had one wish for her end of days. “I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world,” she wrote in...

The National Book Critics Circle announced their 2018 Award Finalists, and the winners of three awards: the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award, John Leonard Prize, and Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing. The...

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Last Thursday, the poet Mary Oliver died; by mid-afternoon, my social media feeds were flooded with friends mourning her passing and expressing gratitude for her work....

Elizabeth McCracken contemplates short stories upon the reissue of her first collection A love affair, or a blow to the solar plexus. A ticking bomb that...

The author on how strangeness in literature can let us see it all anew Photo by Ridham Nagralawala on Unsplash There is a ferocity to the Argentine writer...

This list of fantasy comics from around the world for World of Fantasy Day is sponsored by Kingdom of Copper by S.A. Chakraborty. In Daevabad, djinn summon...

This list of Slavic SFF in translation for World of Fantasy Day is sponsored by Kingdom of Copper by S.A. Chakraborty. In Daevabad, djinn summon flames with...

This list of werewolf books from around the world for World of Fantasy Day is sponsored by Kingdom of Copper by S.A. Chakraborty. In Daevabad, djinn summon...

This piece on Chinese fantasy novels for World of Fantasy Day is sponsored by Kingdom of Copper by S.A. Chakraborty. In Daevabad, djinn summon flames with the...