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Surrendering to Subjectivity: In Praise of Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts

As a writer and thinker, my life is divided into a B.N. and A.N.: a before-Nelson and after-Nelson. Before cracking open Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts, I’d been all phobic about the first-person whenever I sat down to write. For decades,

Surrendering to Subjectivity: In Praise of Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts

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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Our quintet of quality reviews this week includes Lauren LeBlanc on Téa Obreht’s Sunrise, Jane Hu on Chang-Rae Lee’s A Tender Age, Stephanie Burt on Marlon James’s The Disappearers, Laura Miller on…

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