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Lydia Millet on Writing a Double Novel of Grief and Loss

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Fair Ones
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Do Smartphones Belong in Fiction?

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Thomas McGuane is Writing the Most Vital Literature of the Trump Era

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Hernan Diaz's New Novel Isn’t a Dystopia—Trust Him

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What Would Mr. Darcy Earn Today? And Other Jane Austen-Related Money Matters

By Inger Sigrun Bredkjær Brodey

“Sensual Songs for Eight-Year-Olds,” a Poem by Patricia Lockwood

By Patricia Lockwood

Why Barbara Kingsolver Writes Standing Up

By Barbara Kingsolver

Adam Wilson on Plot vs. “Concept” (and Why He’ll Never Write a Yankees Fan)

By Sam Axelrod

Forgiving City, City of Atwood: Paul Theroux Visits Toronto

By Paul Theroux

To Become a Goddess: Kristen Millares Young on Motherhood and Marriage

By Kristen Millares Young

How a Lightning Strike Affected My Identity—And My Main Character’s

By Nafissa Thompson-Spires

How Feminist Activist Robin Morgan Helped Preserve the Legacy of Sylvia Plath

By Emily Van Duyne

How the British Media Legitimized J.K. Rowling’s Transphobia

By Gina Gwenffrewi

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Prisoner of Love: On Research, Ethics, and Matters of the Heart

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I’m Having a Hard Time Saying No: How Can I Be More of a Literary Asshole?

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The Artist’s Room Is Not a Neutral Space

By Demetris Papadimitropoulos

9 to 5: Inside The Movement That Inspired the Iconic Film

By Jonathan Kaufman

How Weimar Germany’s Proportional Democracy Put Hitler in Power

By Dana Bash and David Fisher

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The True Story of the Actual First Shot Fired in the Civil War

By Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz

Meet Hyman Judah Schachtel, the Anti-Zionist Rabbi of Houston

By Benjamin Moser

On Finding the Beauty in a Block of Stone

By Simon Warrack