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Hot Sex With Sea Monsters: A Comparative Study

Hot Sex With Sea Monsters: A Comparative Study

Or, Why is Mrs. Caliban So Much More Convincing Than The Shape of Water?

By Emily Temple | January 9, 2018

Everything You Need to Know About Michael Wolff's <em>Fire and Fury</em>

Everything You Need to Know About Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury

The Trump Exposé That Everyone is Talking About

By Emily Temple | January 5, 2018

35 Literary Adaptations to Look Forward to in 2018

35 Literary Adaptations to Look Forward to in 2018

Prepare Your Reading Schedule Now

By Emily Temple | January 4, 2018

10 Songs for <em>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</em>

10 Songs for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

The Very Best in 14th-century Holiday Morality Tales

By Emily Temple | December 28, 2017

10 Dark Short Stories You Can Read Online to Escape Holiday Cheer

10 Dark Short Stories You Can Read Online to Escape Holiday Cheer

Under the table on your phone, if necessary

By Emily Temple | December 27, 2017

The Most-Rejected Books of All Time

The Most-Rejected Books of All Time

(Of the Ones That Were Eventually Published)

By Emily Temple | December 22, 2017

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The 64 Best Book Covers of 2017

By Emily Temple | December 21, 2017

Notable Literary Deaths in 2017

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The Ultimate Best Books of 2017 List

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A Close Reading of the Best Opening Paragraph of All Time

A Close Reading of the Best Opening Paragraph of All Time

From Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle, of course

By Emily Temple | December 15, 2017

13 Literary Celebrity Lookalikes

13 Literary Celebrity Lookalikes

Because Everyone Has a Doppelgänger

By Emily Temple | December 13, 2017

See It Here: The Cover for Ottessa Moshfegh's New Novel

See It Here: The Cover for Ottessa Moshfegh's New Novel

A Look at My Year of Rest and Relaxation

By Emily Temple | December 13, 2017

Why Is the Internet in an Uproar Over a Single Short Story?

Why Is the Internet in an Uproar Over a Single Short Story?

And were the cats imaginary?

By Emily Temple | December 11, 2017

Watch the Only Existing Footage of Clarice Lispector

Watch the Only Existing Footage of Clarice Lispector

"I think that when I'm not writing I'm dead."

By Emily Temple | December 11, 2017

Now You Too Can Bake Like Emily Dickinson This Holiday Season

Now You Too Can Bake Like Emily Dickinson This Holiday Season

7 Delicious Recipes from a Great American Poet

By Emily Temple | December 8, 2017

William H. Gass's Advice for Writers:

William H. Gass's Advice for Writers: "You Have to be Grimly Determined."

1924-2017

By Emily Temple | December 7, 2017

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