• Literary Criticism

    Unexpected Outcomes

    How George Eliot Became a Social Outcast at the Height of Her Fame

    By Norman Lebrecht  November 22, 2019
    Cultural Criticism

    Is the Debutante One of the Most Misunderstood Characters in Literature?

    By Maitreyi Anantharaman  November 21, 2019
    Mythology

    Who Were the Scribes Who Actually Wrote Down the Epic of Gilgamesh?

    By Michael Schmidt  November 21, 2019
    Mythology

    On Rediscovering the Natural World Through Ovid

    By Nina MacLaughlin  November 20, 2019
    Vietnam

    How the Vietnam War Changed
    Political Poetry

    By Daniel H. Weiss  November 20, 2019
    Mythology

    What the Retelling of Myths Reveals of the Teller

    By Jennifer S. Cheng  November 20, 2019
    Influences

    On the Books That Most Influenced the Great David Bowie

    By John O'Connell  November 19, 2019
    Prison memoir

    Reading Albert Woodfox’s Solitary While Being Detained at Guantánamo

    By Literary Hub  November 19, 2019
    Mathematics

    On the Sci-Fi Pioneer Who Brought Math to the Masses

    By David Lindsay Roberts  November 19, 2019
    Archetypes

    On Jane Austen, Elizabeth Warren, and the Legacy of the Stoic Woman

    By Rachel Vorona Cote  November 18, 2019
    Latin

    Look, Latin Is Not Useless, Neither
    Is It Dead

    By Nicola Gardini  November 18, 2019
    Film

    On Dennis Cooper’s Elegant Jump to Film

    By Jeff Jackson  November 18, 2019
    Classic Novels

    On the Unpublished Ending of Picnic at Hanging Rock, and Other Mysteries

    By Romy Ash  November 15, 2019
    Public Intellectuals

    The Secret Society of Women Writers in Oxford in the 1920s

    By Mo Moulton  November 14, 2019
    True Crime

    The Elusive Lure of Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland

    By Philip Metres  November 14, 2019
    Teachers

    High School Crush: On Literary Longing and Misdirected Lust

    By Janet Manley  November 13, 2019
    Language

    Let’s Talk About Love: A Lost Vocabulary of Amorous Terms

    By Paul Anthony Jones  November 13, 2019
    Russian Literature

    The Woman Who Brought Dostoevsky and Chekhov to English Readers

    By Sara Wheeler  November 12, 2019
    The Writing Life

    Elizabeth Bishop in Key West, Island of Her Dreams

    By Thomas Travisano  November 12, 2019
    Literature and Politics

    Why Resistance Is Foundational to Kurdish Literature

    By Ava Homa  November 12, 2019
    Masculinity

    Imran Siddiquee on the Problem with “New Masculinity”

    By Imran Siddiquee  November 11, 2019
    Influences

    Azar Nafisi on Finding Herself in the Writing of Vladimir Nabokov

    By Azar Nafisi  November 11, 2019
    Inspiration

    On the Line Between Plagiarism and Art

    By Grant Maierhofer  November 11, 2019
    LGBTQ History

    How Lou Sullivan’s Journals Enrich the History of Trans Literature

    By Callum Angus  November 8, 2019
    Nazis

    Hans Fallada, the Anti-Nazi Writer Who Reluctantly Served the Reich

    By Geoff Wilkes  November 8, 2019
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