Virginia Woolf Thought Katharine Mansfield Stank Like a “Civet Cat Taken to Streetwalking”

Virginia Woolf Thought Katharine Mansfield Stank Like a “Civet Cat Taken to Streetwalking”

Gerri Kimber on the Literary Legacy of an Early Master of the Short Form

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How <em>Ulysses</em> Was Almost Banned By the State of New York

How Ulysses Was Almost Banned By the State of New York

Adam Morgan on Margaret C. Anderson and the Early Fight Against Literary Censorship in America

By Adam Morgan | December 17, 2025

The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2025

The Most Scathing Book Reviews of 2025

“Historians will study how bad this book is.”

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Remembering DéLana R.A. Dameron

Remembering DéLana R.A. Dameron

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How Jane Austen’s Family Nurtured Her Early Literary Endeavors

How Jane Austen’s Family Nurtured Her Early Literary Endeavors

Kate Evans Considers the Social and Economic Factors That Contributed to the Writer’s Creative Development

By Kate Evans | December 17, 2025

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It’s Harder and Harder to Be a Magazine on the Internet—Please Help

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Maurice Riordan on Writing Rituals, the Creative Imagination, and His Journey as a Poet

Maurice Riordan on Writing Rituals, the Creative Imagination, and His Journey as a Poet

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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“Its quivering rhythms mimic those of a slow desert wind, picking up dust, chaff, and the bones of small mammals.”

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Did Jane Austen Invent the Wellness Guy?

Did Jane Austen Invent the Wellness Guy?

Chris Cohen on the Self-Optimization Obsessions of Austen’s Male Characters

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What It Was Like to Publish a Book in This Crazy Year, 2025

What It Was Like to Publish a Book in This Crazy Year, 2025

Maris Kreizman Looks Back at the Year That Was

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“Open Me Carefully.” Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

“Open Me Carefully.” Emily Dickinson’s Intimate Letters to Susan Huntington Dickinson

A Look Inside the Poet’s Personal Life and the Making of Her Mythical Reclusiveness

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The Annotated Nightstand: What Zefyr Lisowski is Reading Now, and Next

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