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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
Yukio Mishima. (Courtesy of The Japan Times)

Body cult: Mishima and Murakami on writing and the body

Didi Chang-Park
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Nov. 1, 2017
Emily Wachter, Niamh Cusack and Toby Wharton in a stage adaptation of "My Brilliant Friend." (MARC BRENNER/Rose Theatre Kingston)

The relatable brilliance of ‘My Brilliant Friend’

Anna-Sofia Lesiv
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Nov. 1, 2017
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‘The Vietnam War’ revisited: Books to counteract historical narratives

Ben Maldonado
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Oct. 30, 2017
Excerpts from "If Not, Winter" by Anne Carson. (Courtesy of Poem, Sweet Poem)

Finding Sappho: Four translations in conversation

Emma Grover
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Oct. 29, 2017
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Blazing in ‘Airless Spaces’

Ben Maldonado
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Oct. 26, 2017
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SparkNoting the irreducible: Nabokov in translation

Emma Heath
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Oct. 25, 2017
(Courtesy of Megan Privitello)

On the inner life and the imagination of everyday communication

Maddie Kim
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Oct. 24, 2017
A representation of a woman thought to be Sappho, an archaic Greek poet from the island of Lesbos. (Courtesy of A&E Television Networks)

On sustained silences in Sappho and abstract expressionism

Shana E. Hadi
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Oct. 24, 2017
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[MAGAZINE] Exploring Stanford through history with Tom DeMund’s ‘Walking the Farm’ [copy ep]

Julie Cross
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Oct. 23, 2017
A still from Porpentine's "With Those We Love Alive." (Courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)

Word, wound, world: Innovations in storytelling in ‘With Those We Love Alive’

Ashley Huang
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Oct. 22, 2017
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