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Can the Essay Still Surprise Us?

Can the Essay Still Surprise Us?

Suzanne Conklin Akbari Rethinks a Eurocentric Tradition

By Suzanne Conklin Akbari | August 14, 2020

Black Lives Matter in the Public Theater’s <em>Much Ado About Nothing</em>

Black Lives Matter in the Public Theater’s Much Ado About Nothing

Five Perspectives on Race and Shakespeare in 2020

By Arsh Dhillon, Phillip Michalak, Bernadette Looney, Sonia Kangaju, and Charles Onesti | August 14, 2020

John Giorno: Fighting the Battle of Gay Liberation in a Homophobic World

John Giorno: Fighting the Battle of Gay Liberation in a Homophobic World

Mark Dery on Great Demon Kings, the Memoir of an Icon

By Mark Dery | August 14, 2020

How the Corvette Helped Create Southern California Cool

How the Corvette Helped Create Southern California Cool

Peter Lunenfeld on Joan Didion and Angelyne

By Peter Lunenfeld | August 13, 2020

Nathalie Sarraute: Between Genders and Genres

Nathalie Sarraute: Between Genders and Genres

Ann Jefferson on the Author's Early Tropisms

By Ann Jefferson | August 13, 2020

Yearning for My Grandmother Muriel Rukeyser (and Grappling With Her Legacy)

Yearning for My Grandmother Muriel Rukeyser (and Grappling With Her Legacy)

Rebecca Rukeyser Confronts the History of Her Own Family

By Rebecca Rukeyser | August 12, 2020

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Cree LeFavour on the Pleasures of the Limitless Reread

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40 Hamlets, Ranked

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When One Doctor-Turned-Novelist Reads Another

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Dr. Melanie Cheng Revisits the Fiction of Jacinta Halloran

By Melanie Cheng | August 11, 2020

My Father: The Genius, The Poet, Richard Eberhart

My Father: The Genius, The Poet, Richard Eberhart

Gretchen Cherington on Growing Up Surrounded by Great Thinkers

By Gretchen Cherington | August 7, 2020

Reading the First Drafts of<br> <em>Anna Karenina</em>

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Bob Blaisdell on Tolstoy's Creation and Pushkin's Influence

By Bob Blaisdell | August 6, 2020

On Flannery O’Connor’s Chronic Illness... and Chronic Racism

On Flannery O’Connor’s Chronic Illness... and Chronic Racism

Maggie Levantovskaya Searches for Literary Narratives of Lupus

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Learning to Write From Willie Nelson and One of the Greatest Albums of the 1970s

Learning to Write From Willie Nelson and One of the Greatest Albums of the 1970s

Odie Lindsey on POV Shifts and Moral Dilemmas on
Red Headed Stranger

By Odie Lindsey | August 5, 2020

A Taxonomy of Nonfiction; <br>Or the Pleasures of Precision

A Taxonomy of Nonfiction;
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Karen Babine on the Peculiarities of Genre, Form, and More

By Karen Babine | August 3, 2020

The Essential Steven Millhauser: Where to Start With An Underrated American Master

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