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  • 05.06.22
    Like Solving a Puzzle
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    Two Nights in Lisbon

    Like Solving a Puzzle

    Tautly wound and expertly crafted, Two Nights in Lisbon is a riveting thriller about a woman under pressure, and how far she will go when everything is on the line. Ariel Pryce wakes up in Lisbon, alone. Her husband is gone—no warning, no note,...

    Chris Pavone and Daphne Durham In Conversation

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  • 04.30.21
    Twenty-Five Years of Cave Canem
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    Cave Canem

    Twenty-Five Years of Cave Canem

    Every April, we observe National Poetry Month by honoring how integral poetry is to our past, present, and future. But this year, we wanted to expand the celebration outwards, and spotlight other organizations and their work in keeping poetry vital, alive, and accessible for...

    In Conversation with Malcolm Tariq

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  • 11.13.20
    The Details of What It Feels to Be Alive
    In Conversation

    The Details of What It Feels to Be Alive

    Long before he became one of the most renowned literary critics of our time, Dwight Garner started the practice of keeping a 'commonplace book' of literary quotations that spoke to him. His new book, Garner's Quotations, is a reflection of that lifelong attention—and celebration—of...

    Dwight Garner and Jonathan Galassi In Conversation

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  • 11.13.20
    The Courage in Remaining
    In Conversation

    The Courage in Remaining

    Jonas Hassan Khemiri is a 2020 finalist for the National Book Award in Translated Literature for his book, The Family Clause, a singular novel hailed by The Times Literary Supplement as a "complex portrait of a family that is both identifiable and distinctive,...

    Jonas Hassen Khemiri

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  • 07.31.20
    A Certain Clarity
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    Clarity

    A Certain Clarity

    Lawrence Joseph’s A Certain Clarity brings together poems selected from throughout his career, spanning his first book—1983’s Shouting at No One—to his most recent, So Where Are We? (2017). Joseph’s poetry has always grappled with the defining moments of our age, from...

    Lawrence Joseph and Paul Elie In Conversation

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  • 05.15.20
    Transforming Consciousness
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    Kawai Strong Washburn and Marlon James

    Transforming Consciousness

    Sharks in the Time of Saviors is a groundbreaking debut novel that folds the legends of Hawaiian gods into an engrossing family saga; a story of exile and the pursuit of salvation from debut author Kawai Strong Washburn. In this interview, transcribed from a...

    Kawai Strong Washburn and Marlon James In Conversation

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  • 05.08.20
    Man of My Time
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    Man of My Time

    Man of My Time

    Bound galleys of Dalia Sofer’s Man of My Time happened to go out just as political tensions started to escalate between the US and Iran over the killing of Major General Qasem Soleimani. Some weeks later, as we publish this novel, the entire...

    Dalia Sofer and Ileene Smith

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  • 04.03.20
    Translating Time
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    Translating Time

    If Men, Then, Eliza Griswold’s second poetry collection, charts a radical spiritual journey through catastrophe. Alternately searing and hopeful, funny and fraught, the poems explore the world’s fracturing through the collapse of the ego, embodied in a character named “I”—a soul attempting to...

    Eliza Griswold, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, and Jonathan Galassi In Conversation

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  • 03.13.20
    Clearing Space for Resonances
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    Amina Cain and Patty Yumi Cottrell

    Clearing Space for Resonances

    Reminiscent of a lost Victorian classic in miniature, yet taking equal inspiration from such modern authors as Jean Rhys, Octavia Butler, Clarice Lispector, and Jean Genet, Amina Cain's Indelicacy is at once a ghost story without a ghost, a fable without a moral, and...

    Amina Cain and Patty Yumi Cottrell In Conversation

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  • 02.27.20
    Unfinished Business
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    Unfinished Business

    I sometimes think I was born reading...I can’t remember the time when I didn’t have a book in my hands, my head lost to the world around me. In Vivian Gornick's new book, Unfinished Business, she brings us a celebration of passionate reading, of...

    Vivian Gornick & Alexandra Schwartz In Conversation

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  • 02.13.20
    The Cactus League
    In Conversation

    The Cactus League

    Jason Goodyear is the star outfielder for the Los Angeles Lions, stationed with the rest of his team in the punishingly hot Arizona desert for their annual spring training. Handsome, famous, and talented, Goodyear is nonetheless coming apart at the seams. And the coaches,...

    Emily Nemens & David Duchovny In Conversation

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  • 01.30.20
    Laying Bare the Dignity of Queer Desire
    In Conversation

    Laying Bare the Dignity of Queer Desire

    In Cleanness, the highly anticipated follow-up to his beloved debut, What Belongs to You, Garth Greenwell deepens his exploration of foreignness, obligation, and desire. Sofia, Bulgaria, a landlocked city in southern Europe, stirs with hope and impending upheaval. In this atmosphere of...

    Garth Greenwell & Andrea Lawlor In Conversation

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  • 12.04.19
    Expanding Our Language
    In Conversation

    Expanding Our Language

    For John Freeman—literary critic, essayist, editor, poet—it is the rare moment when words are not enough. But in the wake of the election of 2016, words felt useless, even indulgent. Action was the only reasonable response. He took to the streets in protest, and...

    John Freeman & Valeria Luiselli In Conversation

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  • 11.22.19
    Writing Sensory Experience
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    Writing Sensory Experience

    If a rolling stone gathers no moss, the poems in Devin Johnston’s Mosses and Lichens attend to what accretes over time, as well as to what erodes. They often take place in the middle of life’s journey, at the edge of the woods,...

    Devin Johnston & Robyn Creswell In Conversation

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  • 11.08.19
    The Passage of Time
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    The Passage of Time

    No novel in recent memory has spoken more movingly to contemporary readers about the nature of love than André Aciman’s Call Me by Your Name. First published in 2007, the book recently became an Academy Award–winning film starring Timothée Chalamet as the young...

    André Aciman & Tomi Obaro In Conversation

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  • 11.01.19
    Cognitive Dissonance
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    Cognitive Dissonance

    At the age of five, Megan Phelps-Roper began protesting homosexuality and other alleged vices alongside fellow members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. Founded by her grandfather and consisting almost entirely of her extended family, the tiny group would gain worldwide notoriety...

    Megan Phelps-Roper & Jon Ronson In Conversation

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  • 10.25.19
    On Division
    In Conversation

    On Division

    In Williamsburg, Brooklyn, just a block or two up from the East River on Division Avenue, Surie Eckstein is soon to be a great-grandmother. Her ten children range in age from thirteen to thirty-nine. Her in-laws, postwar immigrants from Romania, live on the first...

    Goldie Goldbloom & Cheryl Sucher In Conversation

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  • 10.18.19
    The Terrain of Truth
    In Conversation

    The Terrain of Truth

    "This is a powerful, timely, and troubling book. Boyer's unflinching account of the market-driven brutality of American cancer care sits beside some of the most perceptive and beautiful writing about illness and pain that I have ever read." —Hari Kunzru, author of White Tears A...

    Anne Boyer & Hari Kunzru In Conversation

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  • 10.11.19
    Theaters of Speech
    In Conversation

    Theaters of Speech

    From the award-winning author of 10:04 and Leaving the Atocha Station, Ben Lerner's new book The Topeka School is a tender and expansive family drama set in the American Midwest at the turn of the century: a tale of adolescence, transgression,...

    Ben Lerner & Sally Rooney In Conversation

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  • 10.03.19
    What Is Missing
    In Conversation

    What Is Missing

    Costanza Ansaldo, a half-Italian and half-American translator, is convinced that she has made peace with her childlessness. A year after the death of her husband, an eminent writer, she returns to the pensione in Florence where she spent many happy times in her youth....

    Michael Frank and Ileene Smith In Conversation

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