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In Daughter, Claudia Dey Explores the Ugly Side of the Great Literary Male

September 21, 2023September 3, 2024 - by Michelle Cyca

The wry, furious novel gives the overlooked daughter of an egotistical writer a voice

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What Naomi Klein Learned about Herself from Naomi Wolf

September 12, 2023September 12, 2023 - by Sean Michaels

A Q&A on doppelgangers, celebrity, and searching for answers

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The Best Books of Fall 2023

September 8, 2023September 3, 2024 - by The Walrus Staff

An eclectic list featuring the season’s most compelling new novels, nonfiction, and poetry, as curated by The Walrus

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The Novel Written about—and with—Artificial Intelligence

September 7, 2023September 3, 2024 - by Brian Bethune

Do You Remember Being Born? is a tech-inflected novel for a digital world

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Ann-Marie MacDonald.

Ann-Marie MacDonald on Exile, Imagination, and Her New Gothic Ghost Story

October 12, 2022 - by Michelle Cyca

The writer insists that her books have happy endings—“insofar as there is someone left to tell the tale”

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Book Cover Confidential: A Roundtable with Designers

October 7, 2022October 7, 2022 - by KC Hoard

Three insiders reveal where industry trends are headed

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I Miss Being Bored at the Mall

September 23, 2022September 28, 2022 - by Jason Guriel

Browsing taught me to enjoy my own company. In a digital age, how will my children learn to be by themselves?

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Judy I. Lin’s Recipe for YA Success: Fantasy and a Cup of Tea

September 19, 2022September 28, 2022 - by Sean Wetselaar

A Magic Steeped in Poison swaps tired European tropes for Taiwanese folklore

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When Big Tobacco Was Forced to Pay

September 16, 2022September 28, 2022 - by Joshua Knelman

The cigarette industry had its Erin Brockovich moment in the nineties. How has it managed to survive?

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