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10 Specialty Bookstores That Are Definitely Worth a Visit

10 Specialty Bookstores That Are Definitely Worth a Visit

Particularly If You Like Magic or the Ocean or Romance (And Who Doesn't)

By Emily Temple | February 12, 2019

The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Faulkner's <em>The Sound and the Fury</em>

The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

Harry Potter, you know?"">"This isn't Harry Potter, you know?"

By Emily Temple | February 8, 2019

10 Contemporary “Dickensian” Novels

10 Contemporary “Dickensian” Novels

Because “Kafkaesque” is Like, So 2018

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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

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

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The 15 Best Book Covers of January

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What Was Virginia Woolf Like as a Child?

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

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

Opinions Contained in This Article Are 100 Percent Correct

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A State-By-State Survey of Literary Masterpieces

A State-By-State Survey of Literary Masterpieces

As Determined by the Most Prestigious Literary Prizes in the Country

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

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

Quoth the Raven, Many, Many Times . . .

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Some Hilarious Illustrations from America's First Bestselling Diet Book

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

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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>

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