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The Enchantments of Kathryn Harrison's Russia
Mar 14, 2012 | (0) Comments
We may think we know the story of Rasputin, the "Mad Monk" who manipulated his way into a role as a spiritual advisor to the wife of Russia's last tsar until he was assassinated by...
Women's History Month: The Family Drama of Ellen Ullman's By Blood
Mar 7, 2012 | (0) Comments
Starting in the 1970s, Ellen Ullman was one of the first women to make a living as a computer programmer. She first wrote about those experiences in the 1997 memoir Close to the Machine, then...
Lauren Fox's Friends Like Us
Mar 1, 2012 | (0) Comments
Willa is a young woman living in Milwaukee who somehow never caught on to the fact that Ben, her best friend in high school, had a massive crush on her. After an awkward revelation at...
What is Truth, Anyway?: The Lifespan of a Fact
Feb 22, 2012 | (0) Comments
When John D'Agata sent The Believer "What Happens There," an essay exploring the character of Las Vegas through the prism of one teenage boy's suicide, he informed them he'd taken some liberties with the facts....
The Eminent Outlaws of Gay American Literature
Feb 14, 2012 | (0) Comments
"The gay revolution began as a literary revolution," Christopher Bram declares on the first page of Eminent Outlaws, a history of the profound impact of gay male writers on American culture since the end of...
Black History Month: Bernice L. McFadden Probes the Soul of Money, Mississippi
Feb 7, 2012 | (0) Comments
The 1955 murder of Emmett Till was one of the incidents that galvanized the American civil rights movement. Till was a 14-year-old African American spending the summer with relatives in the small town of Money,...
Deep in the Undercity with Katherine Boo
Jan 31, 2012 | (0) Comments
Katherine Boo has dedicated her journalistic career to writing about society's disadvantaged. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 2000 for her reporting on the conditions in Washington, D.C., homes for the mentally impaired; four years...
1,000,000 Nerdfighters Can't Be Wrong
Jan 26, 2012 | (0) Comments
Towards the end of June 2011, YA author John Green announced the title of his next novel, The Fault in Our Stars, to his online fans, known as the nerdfighters (it's complicated). In just a...
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