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Arto Paasilinna
Arto Paasilinna is an award-winning author of more than thirty novels, all of which have been translated into numerous languages. The Year of the Hare was first published in 1975 but has not been ...

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The Year of the Hare

Julianne Pachico
Julianne Pachico grew up in Cali, Colombia, and lived there until she was eighteen. She is currently completing a Ph.D. in creative writing at the University of East Anglia in England. Her story "...

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The Lucky Ones

Ann Packer
Ann Packer was born in Stanford, California, in 1959, and grew up near Stanford University, where her parents were professors. She attended Yale University and then, after five years working at a ...

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The Dive From Clausen's Pier

George Packer
George Packer is a staff writer for The New Yorker and the author of The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, which received numerous prizes and was named one of the ten best books of 2005 by The ...

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The Unwinding

Jamie Pacton
Jamie Pacton is an award-nominated young adult and middle grade author, who writes swoony, funny, magical books across genres. When she's not writing, she's teaching college English, obsessively ...

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The Absinthe Underground

Ruth Padel
Ruth Padel is a British poet, novelist, conservatist, critic and author. She is Teaching Fellow in Poetry at Kings College, London and has published eight poetry collections, a novel, and eight books ...

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Darwin

Maria Padian
Maria Padian has a bachelor's degree from Middlebury College and a master's degree from the University of Virginia. She is a freelance writer, essayist, and author of young adult novels, including ...

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How to Build a Heart

Leonardo Padura
Leonardo Padura was born in 1955 in Havana and lives in Cuba. He has published a number of short-story collections and literary essays but international fame came with the Havana Quartet, all ...

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Havana Fever

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by Percival Everett

The Oscar-nominated film American Fiction (2023) and the Percival Everett novel it was based on, ...
But the Girl
by Jessica Zhan Mei Yu

Jessica Zhan Mei Yu's But the Girl begins with the real-life disappearance of Malaysia Airlines ...
Patriot
by Alexei Navalny

On the 17th of January, 2024, colleagues of Alexei Navalny posted a message to his Instagram account...
Rental House
by Weike Wang

For many of us, vacations offer an escape from the everyday — a chance to explore new places, ...