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Staff Picks: Swans, Sieves, and Sentience
The male swan ensemble in Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake. Photo: Johan Persson. When I was a dancer, performing Swan Lake was a rite of passage.…
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Staff Picks: Sex, Stand-Up, and South Korea
Ha Seong-nan. There’s something pleasingly matter-of-fact to the many off-kilter moments found in Ha Seong-nan’s short story collection Flowers of Mold (translated from the Korean…
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Staff Picks: Battle Hymns, Boarding Schools, and Bach
Sarah M. Broom. Photo: Adam Shemper. Over the holiday weekend, I devoured The Yellow House, Sarah M. Broom’s remarkable and deeply researched memoir about her…
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Staff Picks: Tigers, Transliteration, and Truth
Zeb Bangash performing on Coke Studio. Photo courtesy of Coke Studio Pakistan. There are many things I love about Coke Studio. One of them is…
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Feminize Your Canon: Cora Sandel
Our monthly column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors. Cora Sandel “In everything one writes,” said the Norwegian novelist Cora…
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AVOIDING SCAMS – Terrible Writing Advice
Big thanks to Skillshare for enduring the coming Sponsorship War!: http://skl.sh/twa11 Terrible Writing Advice gets taken into the wonderful world of writing scams. Come with…
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How to Develop Story Ideas Into Amazing Stories
I often hear practicing writers ask, “What if I can’t think of anything to write about?” Sometimes they even have notebooks full of observations, but…
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Staff Picks: Jai Paul, Journalists, and Just Policies
Olga Tokarczuk. Photo: © K. Dubiel. How to describe Olga Tokarczuk’s Drive Your Plow over the Bones of the Dead? Unlike her Man Booker International…
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Feminize Your Canon: Mariama Bâ
Our monthly column Feminize Your Canon explores the lives of underrated and underread female authors. As a Muslim schoolgirl in Senegal in the forties, Mariama Bâ had to…
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