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Illustration by Joanne Imperio / The Atlantic. Source: Feng Li / Getty. The Strange Audacity of Faking a Big Life Moment
In Diary of a Void, an impulsive decision grows into a personal rebellion against society.
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His early translated works, the subject of a fascinating new book, shed light on the business of bringing the best-selling novelist to a global audience.
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Territory of Light, Yuko Tsushima’s story of a single mother navigating ’70s Japan, exploded notions of autofiction by women as simply memoiristic.
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With the graphic novel On a Sunbeam, Tillie Walden has created a science-fiction universe of queer love, crumbling ruins, and magical forests. It might piss off the genre’s purists.
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With Boundless, Jillian Tamaki makes a profound case for the primacy of images in storytelling.
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