Essays & Memoir

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  15 November 2011

  Vanishing Virgil

  On the mummies that refuse to die.

  • Maaza Mengiste
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  08 November 2011

  The Plano Suicides

  Growing up in a town marked by death.

  • Stefan Merrill Block
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  07 November 2011

  Barely Imagined Beings

  Monsters from medieval times to now.

  • Caspar Henderson
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  31 October 2011

  Not Easy to Tell

  The last days of a Stephen King fan.

  • Patrick Ryan
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  30 October 2011

  José Saramago: a celebration

  A novelist who broke with convention.

  • Margaret Jull Costa
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  19 October 2011

  Necessary Daemons

  Haitian Vodou and creative possession.

  • Madison Smartt Bell
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  10 October 2011

  The Last Days of the Thunderbird

  Grandma Mimi’s remedy for heartbreak.

  • Stefan Merrill Block
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  07 October 2011

  Remembering Tim Hetherington

  A photographer with an eye for stillness.

  • Michael Salu
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  06 October 2011

  Tomas Tranströmer

  A Nobel for the poet of the natural world.

  • Sigrid Rausing
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  06 October 2011

  You Want Gunfire With That?

  The enlightenment and what came next.

  • Dan Hind