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Ruth Kaplan

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Ruth Kaplan covers Crafts News, Art News and Editorial.

Articles by Ruth Kaplan

Worn hardcover novels stacked on a wooden desk

Where to Start with Toni Morrison: A Reading Order for Newcomers

Ruth Kaplan

Five Readers, Six Hundred Books: How the National Book Award Actually Picks a Longlist

Five Readers, Six Hundred Books: How the National Book Award Actually Picks a Longlist

Ruth Kaplan

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The Three Percent Problem: How Translated Fiction Shapes English

Ruth Kaplan

Timeline charting criticism’s venues from weeklies to newsletters, 1931-2025

The Public Literary Critic: From Edmund Wilson to the Newsletter

Ruth Kaplan

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The Second Novel Problem: What Comes After Lightning

Ruth Kaplan

Infographic lanes mapping deception signals across three unreliable narrators

The Liar at the Wheel: A Field Guide to the Unreliable Narrator

Ruth Kaplan

Readers browsing essay shelves in a warm secondhand bookshop

Where to Start with George Orwell: Essays Before Dystopia

Ruth Kaplan