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Bravely Moving Forward
Like many writers, I keep a commonplace book in which I write down not only my own thoughts but those of other writers I come across in the course of my…
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Day's End or End of Days?
The more I read the news these days, the more I think about the word “entropy.” As a scientific term, entropy is defined in the Second Law of…
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Flight Response
In one of my novels, a character named Max Llif is a passenger on an Air Canada flight to Buenos Aires.
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How Translations Work
Don Quixote de la Mancha, published in 1605, has been called the first modern novel.
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The Wrongs of Women
Since reading Ta Nehisi Coates’s We Were Eight Years in Power – essays written during Barack Obama’s two administrations and published as a book during…
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How (Some) Short Stories Work
For its summer fiction issue, the New Yorker asked a few contemporary writers to write short stories “inspired by” stories previously published in the…
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The Spirit of the Novel
Dire warnings of the death of the novel have been circulating since novelists ascended the literary dais that had for centuries been occupied by poets.
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