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Nikki Giovanni: Why We Need Poetry

Nikki Giovanni: Why We Need Poetry

From Make Me Rain, a Collection of Poetry and Prose

By Nikki Giovanni | October 21, 2020

After My Partner's Death, I Discovered the Full Richness of His Poetry

After My Partner's Death, I Discovered the Full Richness of His Poetry

Megan Marshall Remembers Scott Harney

By Megan Marshall | October 21, 2020

On Aoko Matsuda’s Deceptively Delightful Call for Systemic Change

On Aoko Matsuda’s Deceptively Delightful Call for Systemic Change

Polly Barton Reads Where the Wild Ladies Are

By Polly Barton | October 21, 2020

Czesław Miłosz Confronts the Dark and Immutable Order of the World

Czesław Miłosz Confronts the Dark and Immutable Order of the World

From the Russian Empire to the Republic of Letters 

By Czesław Miłosz | October 21, 2020

On Beauty Standards (and Privilege) in Memoir and Fiction

On Beauty Standards (and Privilege) in Memoir and Fiction

The Reading Women Podcast Discusses Carly Findlay and Frances Cha

By Reading Women | October 21, 2020

Marlon James: On the Power of Myth in Neil Gaiman’s Fiction

Marlon James: On the Power of Myth in Neil Gaiman’s Fiction

"He is a myth-maker, but also a dream restorer."

By Marlon James | October 20, 2020

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Navigating Crisis: On Asian American Solidarity in a Post-Covid America

By Daniel Tam-Claiborne | October 20, 2020

Why Djuna Barnes Withdrew Into Total Seclusion the Last 40 Years of Her Life

By Lit Century | October 20, 2020

On Beauty, Sexual Violence, and Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye

By Kanako Nishi | October 20, 2020

On the Unexpected Hopefulness of Don DeLillo’s <em>The Silence</em>

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Not the Likeliest of Feelings in 2020

By Alexander Sammartino | October 19, 2020

What Happens When You Open a Phone Line for People to Gush About Their Favorite Books

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This Week on The History of Literature Podcast

By History of Literature | October 19, 2020

The Soul-Excavating Work of Louise Glück

The Soul-Excavating Work of Louise Glück

On the Poetry "More Intimate than Any Living Friend"

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The Delight of Daniel Mendelsohn

The Delight of Daniel Mendelsohn

James K.A. Smith on the Radical Interconnectedness of Three Rings

By James K.A. Smith | October 16, 2020

From Napoleon to Trump, on the <br>Tyrant As Troll

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Liesl Schillinger Considers the Ways in Which History Repeats

By Liesl Schillinger | October 15, 2020

Every Mr. Darcy* Ranked

Every Mr. Darcy* Ranked

*That You Care About

By Emily Temple | October 15, 2020

In Praise of Readings: A Brief History of the Book Events I Have Attended

In Praise of Readings: A Brief History of the Book Events I Have Attended

S. Kirk Walsh Looks Back at 33 Years of Writers in Public

By S. Kirk Walsh | October 14, 2020

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