Reads

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Exploring beginnings in Mary Ruefle’s ‘Madness, Rack, and Honey’

Maddie Kim
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Jan. 16, 2018
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‘The Magicians’ fails to make its magic

Claire Francis
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Jan. 16, 2018
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Dirty realism: Authenticity in the 20th century

Gracie Newman
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Jan. 7, 2018
Study of a Figure Outdoors: Woman with a Parasol (Facing Left)/Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Sexuality and stanzaic construction in ‘Warming Her Pearls’ and ‘Martha Pt. 2’

Claire Francis
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Dec. 9, 2017
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Rupi Kaur’s literature: Is it poetry?

Sun Paik
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Dec. 9, 2017
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Absurdist fiction reads to catch this weekend

Arts & Life Reads beat writers
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Nov. 30, 2017
Leo Tolstoy in 1897. (F. W. Taylor/U.S. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS)

Revaluing the ‘Death of Ivan Ilyich’

Shana E. Hadi
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Nov. 28, 2017
Ritidian Beach - Guam National Wildlife Refuge. (Laura Beuregard/U.S. FISH & WILDLIFE SERVICE)

Six books you’ve read before, but not like this

Claire Francis
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Nov. 27, 2017
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Between desire and liberation

Maddie Kim
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Nov. 26, 2017
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The promise of ‘Bliss’

Emma Heath
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Nov. 16, 2017
Death Cab for Cutie performing at TURF Fest 2016. (Courtesy of Freedonn)

Sick late-century dream: Fiction, ’90s rock and the end of American innocence

Nick Burns
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Nov. 16, 2017
Author Ottessa Moshfegh at the 2015 Texas Book Festival. (Courtesy of Larry D. Moore)

Failures in Ottessa Moshfegh’s ‘Eileen’

Anna-Sofia Lesiv
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Nov. 15, 2017
Norwegian author Karl Ove Knausgård at the city library in Lund, Sweden. (Courtesy of Robin Lindsborg)

Warmth in Karl Ove Knausgård’s ‘Autumn’

Gracie Newman
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Nov. 15, 2017
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Love in the endgame: Cyberpunk in Silicon Valley

Ashley Huang
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Nov. 14, 2017
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The moving nature of Twitter literature

Maddie Kim
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Nov. 12, 2017
Graphic by Irene Han

Let’s talk about Robert Spencer

Ben Maldonado
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Nov. 9, 2017
Sarah Mlynowski's "Gimme a Call." (Courtesy of Barnes & Noble)

Gimme a call (or don’t): Relatable narratives in young adult literature

Claire Francis
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Nov. 7, 2017
The final segment of Lemony Snicket's 'A Series of Unfortunate Events.' (Courtesy of Flickr)

Remembering childhood books

Arts & Life Reads beat writers
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Nov. 7, 2017
Author Ted Chiang. (Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

The humanity of Ted Chiang’s ‘Exhalation’

Shana E. Hadi
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Nov. 6, 2017
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Horror literature picks for November

Arts & Life Reads beat writers
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Nov. 3, 2017
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