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Know a Large Adult Son in Need of Reform? Tin House Can Help You Out With That
Darrin Klimek / Getty In a PR gambit obviously designed to reel in people like me, Portland publisher Tin House has a tantalizing offer: If you know a maladjusted manchild in need of reform, they will send him a free copy of Joe Dunthorne’s manchild-focused The Adulterants, in the hopes that it will spur self-reflection […]
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Multiple News Outlets Are Investigating Allegations Against Sherman Alexie
Several outlets may be working on a story.
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Shaun Scott on the Brokest Generation
Millennials Are Killing Lots of Things. Hopefully Capitalism Is Next.
Millennials are Killing Lots of Things. Hopefully Capitalism Is Next.
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Michelle McNamara Used True Crime for Good
Revisiting the I’ll Be Gone in the Dark Author’s Online Investigations
Revisiting the I’ll Be Gone in the Dark author’s online investigations.
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Annihilation Review: A Gorgeous, Terrifying, Spellbinding Trip into the Unknown
Alex Garland’s New Film Is the Best Kind of Cinematic Experience
Alex Garland’s new film is the best kind of cinematic experience.
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Steve Almond: “The Hippies Were Fucking Right”
The Bad Stories Author Reckons with the American Myths That Got Trump Elected
The Bad Stories author reckons with the American myths that got Trump elected.
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Introducing: The Mercury‘s Anti-Trump Book Club
Join us, won’t you? The Anti-Trump Book Club is a new monthly column wherein reviewer Jim Behrle will walk us through literature that’s critical of the Racist-Grandpa-in-Chief. Follow along this month as Jim takes on Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury. —Eds. There must be a German word fit to describe the experience of reading Fire […]
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Surprises and Horrors in Full Bleed, Portland’s New Comics and Culture Quarterly
Also Included: Punk Rock, U-Boats, and Alan Moore Fighting a Demon
Also included: punk rock, U-boats, and Alan Moore fighting a demon.
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Introducing the Anti-Trump Book Club
Fire, Fury, and Why You Should Never Tell the American People What They Shouldn’t Read
Fire, Fury, and why you should never tell the American people what they shouldn’t read.
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Remembering Ursula K. Le Guin, a Storyteller Who Defied Generalization
MARIAN WOOD KOLISCH When words and ideas are dance partners, the results are miraculous. In actuality, it seldom happens. More often than not, beautiful words are used to gussy up empty ideas, or notions of genius are suffocated by tumid or unremarkable prose. Ursula K. Le Guin was a master choreographer in bringing the two […]
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Remembering the Extraordinary Ursula K. Le Guin
A Storyteller Who Defies Generalization
The extraordinary Ursula K. Le Guin left behind a body of work that defies generalization.