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“Oceania” is not the historical, ethnographic show that Western museum-goers might expect. At the entrance a shimmering wave of blue material cascades from the ceiling. Titled...

The Silence of the Girls, Pat Barker’s unsentimental and beautiful new novel, tells the story of the Iliad as experienced by women captives, from inside the...

Vintage twenties lady with cocktail and lace fan © Anneka/Shutterstock. Editor’s Note: A screenwriter and novelist, Natasha Solomons lives in Dorset, England, with her husband and...

Yesterday, a late release from Variety announced that the CW is developing a drama series based on Victoria Schwab’s middle grade novel City of Ghosts. Marlene...

Since 2014, when Jeff Jackson and I roamed the AWP Writers Conference together, I’ve read everything he’s written—that I know of, anyway. Jeff’s style is a...

Get together with your well-read pals for some bookish fun I t’s hard to combine literature and socializing. Reading a book is usually a solitary act. Sure,...

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The author announced that she would be following up her 1985 classic with a sequel, but we’re skeptical Photo by TitiNicola Margaret Atwood announced on Wednesday...

The Kennedy family © JFK Library Archive Editor’s Note: Kerri Maher is also the author of This Is Not a Writing Manual: Notes for the Young Writer in...

Country road at night © Krivosheev Vitaly/Shutterstock. Editor’s Note: James Anderson grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He is a graduate of Reed College, and received...