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What Does It Mean When Toni Morrison Returns in a Dress Made of Fire?

Toni Morrison is staring at us again. Not just from the shelves of libraries or syllabi grown too comfortable with her genius—but from...

Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel laureate and literary icon, dies at 89
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Mario Vargas Llosa Is Dead. But the Scandal of His Genius Isn’t.

He once said that literature is fire. Not metaphor. Not flourish. Fire. So what happens when the flame extinguishes, and all that’s left...