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Before the Essay, the Lecture: Nonfiction's Lost Performative

Before the Essay, the Lecture: Nonfiction's Lost Performative

Mary Cappello Takes up a Question Virginia Woolf Once Asked

By Mary Cappello | September 9, 2020

The Magic of Everyday Life is Preserved in Ganda Folklore

The Magic of Everyday Life is Preserved in Ganda Folklore

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By Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi | September 9, 2020

Why It's Worth Reading T.S. Eliot's <em>The Waste Land</em> (Even When It's a Slog)

Why It's Worth Reading T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (Even When It's a Slog)

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By History of Literature | September 8, 2020

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The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi, read by Yetide Badaki and Chukwudi Iwuji

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William Gay Was Never Too Busy for Life's Smaller Moments

William Gay Was Never Too Busy for Life's Smaller Moments

Sonny Brewer Remembers His Friend, a Master of the Southern Gothic

By Sonny Brewer | September 4, 2020

On the Children's Book So Bad, So Inauthentic... It Was Good?

On the Children's Book So Bad, So Inauthentic... It Was Good?

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The Humble Confidence of Seamus Heaney

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By R. F. Foster | August 31, 2020

On the Experimental Realism of an Eccentric Russian Anglophile

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She Said She Would Write the Essay Herself: Reading Virginia Woolf in Middle Age

She Said She Would Write the Essay Herself: Reading Virginia Woolf in Middle Age

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By Heather O'Neill | August 28, 2020

Learning to Appreciate the Small Things From a 1,000-Year-Old Japanese Writer

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