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'Twitter Feminists' to Katie Roiphe: This Essay is Not Very Good

'Twitter Feminists' to Katie Roiphe: This Essay is Not Very Good

Also "staggeringly boring," "dishonest," and "misdirected"

By Emily Temple | February 5, 2018

15 Novels That Subvert Traditional Gender Roles

15 Novels That Subvert Traditional Gender Roles

Myra Breckinridge Turns 50 Today

By Emily Temple | February 5, 2018

The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of James Joyce's <em>Ulysses</em>

The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of James Joyce's Ulysses

Or: the Ballad of Leatherbags Reynolds

By Emily Temple | February 2, 2018

<em>Ulysses</em>: Good or Bad?

Ulysses: Good or Bad?

21 Famous Writers and One Famous Psychoanalyst Weigh In

By Emily Temple | February 2, 2018

10 Great Literary Works About Television

10 Great Literary Works About Television

Happy Birthday, Infinite Jest

By Emily Temple | February 1, 2018

13 Writers Who Grew to Hate Their Own Books

13 Writers Who Grew to Hate Their Own Books

Star Trek novel."">"I think of it as my Star Trek novel."

By Emily Temple | January 29, 2018

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A Brief Visual History of Virginia Woolf's Book Covers

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10 Other Literary Writers We'd Love to See with Weekly Columns

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Who Will Follow Elena Ferrante? (Rabih Alameddine? Maggie Nelson? Please?)

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Here are the Finalists for the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Awards

Here are the Finalists for the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Awards

30 finalists in six categories

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Great Advice From 25 Writing Manuals by Famous Authors

Great Advice From 25 Writing Manuals by Famous Authors

Q: What’s the key to suspense? A: I’ll tell you later.

By Emily Temple | January 22, 2018

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Read Susan Sontag's Love Letter to Borges, Written 10 Years After His Death

Read Susan Sontag's Love Letter to Borges, Written 10 Years After His Death

"We are still learning from you. We are still imitating you."

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15 Covers for <em>The Bell Jar</em>, Ranked from Most to Least Sexist

15 Covers for The Bell Jar, Ranked from Most to Least Sexist

Plus a Bunch of Crazy International Covers, Just For Fun

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20 Author Photos: Then and Now

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Toni Morrison, Donna Tartt, Margaret Atwood and More

By Emily Temple | January 10, 2018

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