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Genre Articles & Special Topics
A page devoted to our best-loved articles from the past 100 issues. 

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Some Readers' Favorites
Beyond Harry Potter (July/August 2003)
101 Crackerjack Sea Books (July/August 2006)
Guilty Pleasures, Volume I (November/December 2009)
Masters of the Past, Volume I: Twenty Classic Historical Novels and Their Legacy (March/April 2006)
Masters of the Past, Volume II: Historical Fiction (November/December 2008)
Jane Austen in Her Time and Ours (January/February 2015)
If You Like Mad Men ... (November/December 2013) 
If You Like Downton Abbey ... (July/August 2013) 
Literary Fiction 
Classic Novels Updated for the Modern Age (March/April 2015) 
The Regency in Modern Literature (January/February 2012)
100 Years of Feminist Fiction (January/February 2018) 
Contemporary Novels of Exile and Assimilation (March/April 2016)
Novels About Medieval Europe (May/June 2018) 
Novels of Ancient Greece (May/June 2012) 
Beyond Clan of the Cave Bear (March/April 2016)
Contemporary Magical Realism (March/April 2017) 
The Old Testament in Contemporary Fiction (March/April 2014) 
The Campus Novel (May/June 2017) 
Campaigns and Elections (July/August 2012) 
Coming of Age Novels: Contemporary Life Stages, Part I (January/February 2011) 
Literature of the Beat Generation (May/June 2007)
Southern Women's Voices: Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, Flannery O'Connor (March/April 2005) 
Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century Short Story Collections (September/October 2018) 
The Twentieth-Century American Short Story: Three Writers, Three Generations (May/June 2006) 
Native Cultures Around the World (September/October 2014) 
New Voices of the American South (January/February 2019) 
International Fiction & Nonfiction 
Beyond Dante: Contemporary Italian Novels (November/December 2016) 
Japanese Postwar Fiction (May/June 2016) 
Beyond Heart of Darkness: Postcolonial Africa in Fiction (January/February 2014) 
Literature of the New India (November/December 2015) 
Russia in Fiction and Nonfiction (September/October 2010) 
Beyond the USSR: Contemporary Russia in Fiction and Nonfiction (July/August 2017)
Literature of the Caribbean (May/June 2012) 
Contemporary Canadian Fiction (May/June 2014) 
Contemporary South Korean Fiction (July/August 2018)
Chinese Novels in Translation (March/April 2015) 
Scandinavian Fiction in Translation (September/October 2017) 
Tommy Wieringa (Dutch Novelist) (November/December 2016) 
Modern Cuba: Fiction and Nonfiction (July/August 2015) 
Crime Fiction 
Great Mysteries Series, Volume I (November/December 2004) 
Great Mystery Series, Volume II (July/August 2007)
Great Mystery Series, Volume III (July/August 2010) 
Capital Crimes in Fiction and Nonfiction (July/August 2013) 
Beyond Miss Marple: The Best Cozies (July/August 2018)
Science Fiction and Fantasy 
Great Science Fiction, Volume I (July/August 2008) 
Beyond Game of Thrones: Great Stand-Alone Fantasies (March/April 2018) 
Connie Willis's Favorite SF Stories (Summer 2002) 
The Best Alternate Histories (January/February 2008) 
Younger Readers
Beyond Harry Potter (July/August 2003)
Younger Readers Column (March/April 2003)
Younger Readers Column (May/June 2003)
Younger Readers Column (November/December 2003) 
Younger Readers Column (January/February 2004)
Younger Readers Column (March/April 2004) 
Younger Readers Column (May/June 2004) 
Younger Readers Column (July/August 2004) 
Younger Readers Column (November/December 2004) 
Younger Readers Column (January/February 2005) 
Younger Readers Column (November/December 2005) 
General Nonfiction 
Tales from the U.S.-Mexico Border: Fiction and Nonfiction (September/October 2018) 
Speaking Truth to Power: Contemporary Classics in Investigative Journalism (May/June 2005) 
Nature and the Environment: Fiction and Nonfiction (March/April 2013) 
Modern America (January/February 2017)
Literary Nonfiction (May/June 2008) 
World-Class Travel Writers (September/October 2016)
Landmark Court Cases (November/December 2006) 
Adventure Sports (July/August 2018)
Biography 
White House Memoirs (July/August 2016)
American Biographies (November/December 2003) 
American Autobiographies (September/October 2011) 
The Addiction Memoir (January/February 2018)
Entrepreneur & Business Memoirs and Biographies (January/February 2019)
History (and Some Historical Fiction)
The Vietnam War in Fiction and Nonfiction (September/October 2018) 
The Italian Renaissance in Fiction and Nonfiction (March/April 2013) 
The Literature of World War I: Fiction and Nonfiction (November/December 2014) 
A Depression-Era Reading List (May/June 2018)
Colonial America in Fiction and Nonfiction (May/June 2017)
Science 
Evolution (November/December 2008)
This Is Your Brain ... in Fiction and Nonfiction (January/February 2015) 
Brain and Consciousness (January/February 2006) 
All About Language (May/June 2014) 
Scientists in Fiction and Nonfiction (May/June 2011)
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