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Simon Critchley on Tragedy: Colluding in Our Calamity

From Oedipus the King to Breaking Bad, We Do It To Ourselves

April 18, 2019

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When Nelson Algren Fell in Love with Simone de Beauvoir

The Start of a Seven-Month Affair That Changed Both Writers' Lives

April 17, 2019

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Notre Dame on Fire: Toward the Symbol
at the Center of a City

Lauren Elkin in the Streets of Paris

April 16, 2019

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25 of the Best Covers for Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

On the Novel's 67th Birthday

April 15, 2019

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Where Grizzly Bears and Hobby Farmers Come Face to Face

Bryce Andrews Visits the Mission Mountains in Montana

April 15, 2019

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Tragedies of Ambition: On the Fine Art of American Sportswriting

Wright Thompson Heads Home to See the Big Picture

April 12, 2019

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Nathaniel Rich on How the Consensus on Global Warming Was Lost

It Really Didn't Have to Be This Way

April 11, 2019

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15 Great Cat Poems Not Written By Cats

Happy Poetry Month or Something

April 11, 2019

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Let's All Stop Pigeonholing Sally Rooney as a "Millennial Writer"

Even If We Agree She's a Great One

April 10, 2019

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Annie Proulx on Freewheeling
Nature Writer Ellen Meloy

"Some of the essays seem to have been written last week, so fresh are the topics."

April 10, 2019

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Viet Thanh Nguyen: How Not to Bore Your Audience at a Reading

Channel Obama. Perform. Drink if You Must.

April 9, 2019

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In the Aftermath of Civil War, a Writing Workshop Aims for Peace

Sarah Hoenicke on Finding Paths to Healing in Sri Lanka

April 9, 2019

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The Wrong Kind of Redemption: A Civil War That Never Ended

Philip Dray on Henry Louis Gates Jr.'s New Book and the 'Glorious Failure' of Reconstruction

April 8, 2019

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Your Surrealist Literature Starter Kit

André Breton, Leonora Carrington, Kobo Abe, and More!

April 8, 2019

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How Can We Hope to Warn Future Humans of the Poison We've Buried in the Ground?

On the Attempting to Imagine the Unimaginable

April 8, 2019

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What a Writer's Fitness Regime Can Tell Us About the Writing

April 18, 2019 By Ross Mcindoe

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Jane Alison on Raymond Carver
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Two Close Readings: Wavelets

April 18, 2019 By Jane Alison

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Emily Raboteau and Omar El Akkad
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Writing Fiction About Fact: Using Historical Figures As Characters

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