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Lay It Down

People love John Samson Fellows’s music. He doesn’t want to make it anymore.

Out Around the Bay

When Wanda bought the house, she didn’t imagine that anyone in the community would recognize that she and Lynn were queer.

The Problem of Modern Myth-Making

As literature all but abandons the epic, Matt Bell’s debut novel, In the House Upon the Dirt Between the Lake and the Woods, stands out: A modern fairy tale built from small parts—a recognizable domestic story with a dark, fabulist backbone.

How to Look at Poor People

Paul Theroux’s The Last Train to Zona Verde describes a visit to the South African slum of Langa. Obviously, “slum tourism” is exploitative and dehumanizing. But we can’t avert our eyes at poverty, so what is the right way to look?