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John Crowley

John Crowley is the author of Little, Big and the Ægypt cycle. His most recent novel is Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr. He teaches at Yale University.

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Literature & Culture

The Private Edward Gorey

The cult artist and author proves an evasive subject for biography, a fact that would surely have delighted him.

John Crowley

Literature & Culture

A Postcard from Ursula

A science fiction writer remembers his early correspondences with Ursula Le Guin.

John Crowley

Fiction

Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr

On this day, the Crows of the region joined the history of People, and their own history began.

John Crowley

Literature & Culture

Inside Every Utopia Is a Dystopia

A new biography of Norman Bel Geddes, designer of the Futurama, tells the story of American innovation.

John Crowley

Literature & Culture

Stranger Things: The Rise and Fall of UFOs and Life on the Moon

Let's all move to the moon.

John Crowley

Fiction, Literature & Culture

Paul Park’s Hidden Worlds

Paul Park’s fantasy troubles the line between fiction and reality.

John Crowley

Fiction, Literature & Culture

Forget Harry Potter

Fifty years ago, Joan Aiken’s novel The Wolves of Willoughby Chase first appeared in print. As is

John Crowley

Fiction, Literature & Culture

Unpacking

It’s strange to think of Katchor’s work as lifelike, but there it is. Its lifelikeness is partly a function of the felt possibility of ongoing randomness inherent in the comic-strip mode.

John Crowley

Fiction, Literature & Culture

Life Work

Tom Disch, the late poet and novelist, once gave me a piece of advice: if I wanted to write a

John Crowley

Fiction, Literature & Culture

Worldmaker

The poet and fiction writer Thomas M. Disch died on July 4, 2008, of a self-inflicted gunshot

John Crowley

Fiction, Literature & Culture

Uproars

Leslie Epstein has always been a master of uproar in fiction. His early story “The Steinway

John Crowley

Literature & Culture

Metamorphosis

Fraying, tattered, cracked, flattened, swollen, dried, scrawny, collapsed, shredded, peeling, torn

John Crowley

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