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Cover of Prince's Controversy (Warner Bros. Records, 1981).

Seduction and Betrayal

Hilton Als’s conflicted love letter to Prince
Harmony Holiday
Emma Grove

Alter Offerings

Bookforum talks with graphic memoirist Emma Grove
Karen Schechner
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Ash Thayer, Matty, View from Serenity Roof #2, 1997, materials variable, 40 × 60”. Courtesy the artist

DIY PI

Sam Lipsyte reinvents the detective novel for the last days of punk
Lisa Borst
George Saunders, 2018. Photo: Zach Krahmer.

A Case for the Weird Voice

George Saunders on revision, the subconscious, and staying mystified
Angelo Hernandez-Sias
paper trail
J. M. Coetzee
Penguin Random House CEO steps down; J. M. Coetzee and global English
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How the 1990 English National team changed soccer—and sports journalism
Leo Robson
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Bookforum talks with John Keene about his National Book Award–winning poetry collection, Punks
Zachary Issenberg
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Artists on Writers | Writers on Artists: Björk and Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Alexander Lernet-Holenia’s newly reissued novel of World War I
Trevor Quirk
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A new biography of novelist Shirley Hazzard
Christine Smallwood
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