| |  Novellas “Muscle” “It’s time to turn up the heat a little bit more. My boys are getting bored, and that’s not good for their appetite or their temper.” By Daniyal Mueenuddin | | |  This Week in Fiction Daniyal Mueenuddin on Wealth, Power, and Corruption The author discusses his new novella, “Muscle.” By Cressida Leyshon |  Fiction “A Spoiled Man” If you liked “Muscle,” we think you’ll enjoy this story, from 2008. By Daniyal Mueenuddin | | | | | | | Personal History A Better Place Why the euphemisms? My father did not “pass.” Neither did he “depart.” He died. By David Sedaris | | | Second Read Virginia Woolf’s Art of Character-Reading Woolf believed that characters were a novelist’s greatest tool, a way to bridge life and fiction. In “Mrs. Dalloway,” she put her theory to the test. By Merve Emre | | | | | |  Poems “The Lazy Susan” From 2016: “The lazy Susan, in antiquity, would have been a fire.” By Adrienne Su |  Poems “Refrigerator, 1957” From 1997: “This is not / a place to go in hope or hunger.” By Thomas Lux | | | | |  Politics and More Podcast Kim Stanley Robinson on “Utopian” Science Fiction July was, globally, the hottest month on record. The author of a novel on climate change tries to imagine how things could begin to turn around. |  Listening Booth Two Artists’ Visions of Motherhood While Halsey’s album dramatizes the horrors of being a mother, another new record, Cleo Sol’s “Mother,” takes a more subdued approach. By Sheldon Pearce | | | | | | |
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