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Maged Zaher’s New Anthology, The Tahrir of Poems, Collects Seven Poets from the Arab Spring
Stranger Genius of Literature Calls Translation a Cigarette-Fueled “Act of Friendship”
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Inherent Vice Is a Mystery That Can’t Be Solved
Paul Thomas Anderson and Thomas Pynchon Team Up for a Dense, Funny Enigma of a Movie
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Sonora Jha’s Foreign Is the Best Novel You Can’t Buy on Amazon
A Literary/Journalistic Odyssey, from Seattle to India and Back Again
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Jeff Chang’s Who We Be Offers a Brief History of Race Representation in Art and Ads, from Family Circus to Trayvon Martin
A Brilliant, Incomplete Look at America’s Racial Divide
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Writing About Shopping: Women in Clothes and A Bunch of Pretty Things I Did Not Buy Defy Fashion Lit Stereotypes
Everybody Wears Clothes, So Why Are We Ashamed to Write About Them?
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Meghan Daum On the Dubious Enterprise of Personal Essays and Other Unspeakable Topics
Veteran Author’s New Collection Defies the Culture of Confession
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The Hot, Wet Familiarity of Lindsay Hunter’s Ugly Girls
Two Teenage Girls on a Crime Spree, One Mysterious Boy
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Bookstores Have Left the Building
Looking for Something to Read at Alderwood Mall? Try Urban Outfitters
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Every Book Is Someone’s Last Book
The Secret Life (and Death) Seething Under the Skin of The Book of Strange New Things
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826 Seattle Changes Its Name to the Bureau of Fearless Ideas
And as Part of Its Commitment to Fearlessness, Breaks Off from 826 National and Expands into White Center with Another Tutoring Space