Following knock-off fashion’s flow from Lagos to Guangzhou (and back again).
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After the Tsunami
After the 2011 disaster, which killed his grandmother and laid waste to his ancestral home, an American journeys to Japan to search for what the tsunami left in its wake.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books, Essays & Criticism, Story
Defeating the Celluloid Axis
The invisible language of film permeates Christian Kracht’s “The Dead,” prose that is neutral and shot through with so much darkness, you occasionally can’t find the light.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Ten Translations of Care
Mary Wang recalls the ways in which she and her family in China conspired to hide her grandmother’s cancer diagnosis from her.
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Ten Translations of Care
Mary Wang recalls the ways in which she and her family in China conspired to hide her grandmother’s cancer diagnosis from her.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Feature, Nonfiction
The Changeling
Alexander Chee considers the ways in which answering the question, “What are you?” turned him into a writer.
Posted inBooks, Current Events, Story
The State of the Bookstore Union
The Strand, New York City’s largest independent bookstore, is owned by a millionaire — and the booksellers who work there are all broke.
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Literature by the Numbers
In Nabokov’s Favorite Word is Mauve, data journalist Ben Blatt takes a mathematical approach to writers of fiction.
Posted inBooks, Profiles & Interviews, Story
The Story of Memory: An Interview with Paula Hawkins
Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on The Train and Into the Water, reflects on two unreliable things: narrators and memory.
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The Floor is Lava
“Because children needed to play, to let their imaginations explode. Because pretending was sometimes the only way to get through the day.”
