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Ritual and Self-Renewal

Pulitzer-Prize winner James Alan McPherson has written two highly regarded collections of short fiction, and the pleasures and insights offered by Crabcakes are those of a well-crafted story. This memoir uses the epiphanies and dramatic resolutions of fiction to generate … Continue reading

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Traveling the Psychic Hinterlands

Booked is a series of interviews about new books. For this edition, Dissent associate editor Lyra Walsh Fuchs talks to Rachel Aviv, the author of Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us (FSG). Strangers to Ourselves … Continue reading

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