Akwaeke Emezi on the Beauty<Br> of Nothing

Akwaeke Emezi on the Beauty
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“The beauty is that it will all end, and that is the most terrible beauty of all.”

By Akwaeke Emezi | August 18, 2025

Why the Supreme Court Shouldn’t Make Millions From Publishing Books

Why the Supreme Court Shouldn’t Make Millions From Publishing Books

Maris Kreizman Wonders Who Will Be Left to Pass Judgment on Book-Related Cases

By Maris Kreizman | August 14, 2025

The Night the Warring Poet Clans of NYC Came Together in Peace

The Night the Warring Poet Clans of NYC Came Together in Peace

Nathan Kernan on James Schuyler’s First Public Poetry Reading

By Nathan Kernan | August 14, 2025

Constantine Cavafy: The Making of a Poet

Constantine Cavafy: The Making of a Poet

Gregory Jusdanis and Peter Jeffreys on the Artistic Journey of Modern Greek Literature’s Most Distinguished Poetic Voice

By Gregory Jusdanis and Peter Jeffreys | August 12, 2025

How Charlotte Brontë’s Shyness Helped Make Her a Storyteller

How Charlotte Brontë’s Shyness Helped Make Her a Storyteller

Graham Watson Explores the Influence of Friendship and Community on the Author of "Jane Eyre"

By Graham Watson | August 11, 2025

What Jane Austen’s Possessions Reveal About Her Literary Ethos

What Jane Austen’s Possessions Reveal About Her Literary Ethos

Kathryn Sutherland Explores the Iconic Author’s Life and Work Through the Most Seemingly Mundane Objects

By Kathryn Sutherland | August 4, 2025

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The Politics of Care and Resistance in the Work of a Forgotten Pulitzer Prize-Winner

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Finding Hope in the Stories of Zona Gale

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Edmund White: Remembering a Doyen of LGBTQ+ Literature and His Mentorship

Edmund White: Remembering a Doyen of LGBTQ+ Literature and His Mentorship

Michael T. Luongo on the Loss of a Great Writer and Mentor

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“Let Me Tell You What I Love.” Remembering Fanny Howe

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On One of America’s Great Poets, Gone at 84

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Did Shakespeare Write <em>Hamlet</em> While He Was Stoned?

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On Marina Abramović and the Radical Notion of the Third Act

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Ellen O’Connell Whittet Considers the Long Life of Art

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Black Finnegan: On William Melvin Kelley, James Joyce, and the Avant-Garde of the Subaltern

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Benjamin Hale Remembers His Literary Mentor

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“Fidelity to Both Pleasure and Humiliation.” On M.F.K. Fisher’s Feminist Realism

“Fidelity to Both Pleasure and Humiliation.” On M.F.K. Fisher’s Feminist Realism

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