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Uma Thurman attends the "Dexter: Resurrection" World Premiere. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images)

Even Uma Thurman feels pull of romantasy

Alex Galbraith
Sunny Hostin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Sunny Hostin writes from her own story

Alli Joseph
A contractor walks through Clippinger Chevrolet in West Covina Saturday morning August 23, 2003 where vandals torched and vandalized sport utility vehicles early Friday morning. (Sarah Reingewirtz/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)

Eco-activism comes to mainstream fiction

Kate Yoder - Grist
Bob Odenkirk as Hank in "Lucky Hank" (Sergei Bachlakov/AMC)

"Lucky Hank" and the adjunct crisis

Alison Stine
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Robot sitting on a bunch of books, reading (Getty Images/Kirillm)

Stop using AI to pitch stories

Alison Stine
Water flows out of the Miami River to flood a walkway as Hurricane Irma passes through on September 10, 2017 in Miami, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Kate Yoder
Most Anticipated Books of 2023 (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Random House/Riverhead/Pantheon/Viking/Flatiron Books/Ecco/Soft Skull Press)

22 highly anticipated books for 2023

Alison Stine, Hanh Nguyen
Smog over Los Angeles (Getty Images/Robert Landau)

Can fiction save the world?

Mark Johnson - Undark
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Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence in "Don't Look Up" (Niko Tavernise/Netflix)

We need fictional "green" role models

Denise Baden - The Conversation
Nabhaan Rizwan and Himesh Patel in "Station Eleven" (Ian Watson/HBO Max)

Frank deserved better on Station Eleven

Alison Stine
A parent and child tell each other stories inside a cosy tent lit up in a dark room of their home (Getty Images)

The scientific case for literature

Erik Hoel
Omar Sy in "Lupin" (Netflix)

Meeting France's gentleman thief, Lupin

Emma Bielecki - The Conversation
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Conceptual illustration of the Statue of Liberty and New York flooded and in ruins, in a possible future showing a rise in sea levels due to global warming (Getty Images)

What fictional drowned worlds teach us

Chelsea Haith - The Conversation
Protective mask hanging on a rearview mirror (Getty Images)

Hit the road: 5 epic literary road trips

Jessica Gildersleeve - The Conversation
Letter sent to Madeleine L'Engle from editor James Henle in regards to her story, "Summer Camp" | The Moment of Tenderness by Madeleine L'Engle (Grand Central Publishing/Crosswicks)

Read this early Madeleine L'Engle story

Madeleine L'Engle
"Afterlife"" by Julia Alvarez, "Perfect Tunes"" by Emily Gould, "The Coyotes of Carthage"" by Steven Wright, "The House of Deep Water"" by Jeni McFarland, and "How to Pronounce Knife"" by Souvankham Thammavongsa" (Algonquin Books/Simon & Schuster/Harper Collins/G.P. Putnam’s Sons/Little, Brown and Company)

Recommended: April's new must-read books

Erin Keane, Ashlie D. Stevens, Hanh Nguyen
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My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell (Elena Seibert/William Morrow)

The "Lolita" problem we haven't solved

Erin Keane
"American Dirt" by Jeanine Cummins (Flatiron Publishing/Salon)

The cancellation of "American Dirt"

Ashlie D. Stevens
Writing dark themes after becoming a parent (Salon/Ilana Lidagoster)

On mothers and monsters

Amber Cowie
In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado, Space Invaders by Nona Fernandez, Making Comics by Lynda Barry, Wake Siren by Nina MacLaughlin, and The Colonel's Wife by Rosa Liksom (Grey Wolf Press/Drawn and Quarterly/FSG Originals/)

Here are November's must-read books

Erin Keane, Ashlie D. Stevens
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The Testament by Margaret Atwood (Sophie Giraud/Hulu/McClelland & Stewart)

Hope for Gilead in "The Testaments"

Ashlie D. Stevens
“The Memory Police: A Novel” by Yōko Ogawa; “The World Doesn't Require You: Stories” by Rion Amilcar Scott; “Inland” by Téa Obreht; “Hollow Kingdom” by Kira Jane Buxton; “They Could Have Named Her Anything” by Stephanie Jimenez (Penguin Random House/Liveright/Grand Central Publishing/Little A)

Need to read: Hot new fiction in August

Erin Keane, Ashlie D. Stevens
Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman (William Morrow)

Laura Lippman, queen of crime

Erin Keane
(Getty/Salon)

NSFW: "Don't move," I texted him

Ella Dawson
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