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By EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | December 30, 2011

HEIDI JULAVITS | March 29
The first three novels by Believer editor Heidi Julavits are so beguiling as to take on an almost mystical air. How can such cerebral writing be so affecting? How can such sharp prose confound the reader so thoroughly? Her last novel, The Uses of Enchantment, was especially vexing and lovely. Its themes of false memory and erotic awakening were expressed in a uniquely disquieting manner. Julavits's latest novel, The Vanishers (Doubleday) — the story of a psychic mentorship gone sour — seems a departure, but odds are it will be as relentless as its predecessors.

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IS BOSTON RIGHT FOR WRITERS? | March 05, 2013
Boston, the birthplace of American literature, boasts three MFA programs, an independent creative-writing center, and more than a dozen colleges offering creative-writing classes.

INCREMENTALLY MORE KIND: GEORGE SAUNDERS CHANGES THE WORLD | March 05, 2013
George Saunders: satirist, humanist, and — after 20 years, four magisterial short story collections, a novella, and a book of essays — now a bestselling author.

INTERVIEW: THE PASSION OF MIKE DAISEY | February 14, 2013
Last January, storyteller Mike Daisey achieved a level of celebrity rarely attained among the off-Broadway set when the public radio program This American Life aired portions of his monologue The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs .

GETTING BOOKED: WINTER READS | December 21, 2012
Who cares about the fiscal cliff when we'll have authors talking about Scientology, the space-time continuum, and Joy Division?

BRILLIANT FRIENDS: GREAT READS OF 2012 | December 17, 2012
You already know Chis Ware's Building Stories is the achievement of the decade (thanks, New York Times!), but some other people wrote some pretty great books this year too.