10 Works of Literary Fantasy You Should Read

10 Works of Literary Fantasy You Should Read

Even If You're a Genre Snob (But Also, If You're a Genre Snob, Stop)

By Emily Temple | February 5, 2019

On the Destabilizing Brilliance of Robert Coover's

On the Destabilizing Brilliance of Robert Coover's "The Babysitter"

Or, How to Accept the Pain of Not Knowing

By Emily Temple | February 4, 2019

The Art (or Non-Art) of the Cinematic Dictionary Open

The Art (or Non-Art) of the Cinematic Dictionary Open

The Definitions that Begin 13 Films and TV Shows

By Emily Temple | February 1, 2019

The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

Short Month, Long Books

By Emily Temple | January 31, 2019

The 15 Best Book Covers of January

The 15 Best Book Covers of January

2019's First Crop of Shiny New Books

By Emily Temple | January 28, 2019

What Was Virginia Woolf Like as a Child?

What Was Virginia Woolf Like as a Child?

Your First Clue: Her Nickname Was "the Goat"

By Emily Temple | January 25, 2019

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5 Literary Classics That Have Yet to Be Adapted, and How We'd Cast Them

By Emily Temple | January 24, 2019

A State-By-State Survey of Literary Masterpieces

By Emily Temple | January 23, 2019

A Brief and Incomplete Survey of Edgar Allan Poes in Pop Culture

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Some Hilarious Illustrations from America's First Bestselling Diet Book

Some Hilarious Illustrations from America's First Bestselling Diet Book

Lulu Hunt Peters Invented Calorie Counting and Let her Nephew Draw the Pictures

By Emily Temple | January 15, 2019

What's Needed is <em>Magic</em>: Writing Advice from Haruki Murakami

What's Needed is Magic: Writing Advice from Haruki Murakami

Also: Talent, Focus, and Endurance

By Emily Temple | January 14, 2019

An Unnecessarily Close Reading of <em>That</em> Scene in <em>Portnoy's Complaint</em>

An Unnecessarily Close Reading of That Scene in Portnoy's Complaint

Chopped Meat Through the Kosher Grinder

By Emily Temple | January 11, 2019

The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

New Year's Resolutions to Read More: No Sign is Immune

By Emily Temple | January 9, 2019

Announcing the 2018 Story Prize Finalists

Announcing the 2018 Story Prize Finalists

Three Collections Are in the Running for $20,000

By Emily Temple | January 9, 2019

How Zora Neale Hurston Helped Create the First Realistic Black Baby Doll

How Zora Neale Hurston Helped Create the First Realistic Black Baby Doll

Writing Literary Classics and Advising American Toymakers

By Emily Temple | January 7, 2019

The 75 Best Book Covers of 2018

The 75 Best Book Covers of 2018

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