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The author's absorbing debut novel chronicles a young woman’s year in Paris, where she will have to choose the home wants most. 

Literary conversations are not representative of the diversity of modern letters. We can and I will do better. 

The bombing of Hiroshima changed everything; but it may not be too late to change it back.

In our first issue, just after the Civil War, we wrote that in 89 years of celebrating the Fourth of July, never before did Americans have more to rejoice about on Independence Day; in 1991, we asked 100 contributors for their definitions of patriotism.