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Against a tide of digits, pixels and tweets, theatrical and literary stars align in support of the American short story and the written word.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Virgin Suicides and Middlesex talks about the indelibility of superstition, the changing landscape of American politics and how he’s finally growing up.
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Susan Choi extracts timeless insights on identity and empathy from a stimulating mix of personal memory and headline news.
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A Kuwaiti-born businessman is giving an American institution an Eastern makeover.
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In her fiction and her films, Xiaolu Guo explores the gulf between language and culture, and the meaning of home in a world in flux.
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