13 Ways of Looking at Flash Fiction

13 Ways of Looking at Flash Fiction

Grant Faulkner on the Infinite Possibilities of Brevity

By Grant Faulkner | August 21, 2020

How Dante Alighieri Invented Italy

How Dante Alighieri Invented Italy

On the New Books Network Podcast

By New Books Network | August 21, 2020

Growing Up With Ray Bradbury's Ghost in Waukegan, Illinois

Growing Up With Ray Bradbury's Ghost in Waukegan, Illinois

Colleen Abel on the Inescapable Distortions of Childhood Nostalgia

By Colleen Abel | August 21, 2020

Why You Should Trust Your Reading Instincts (and an Ode to Aimee Bender)

Why You Should Trust Your Reading Instincts (and an Ode to Aimee Bender)

This Week on the So Many Damn Books Podcast

By So Many Damn Books | August 21, 2020

On Percival Everett’s Almost Secret Experiment in a Novel<br> in Threes

On Percival Everett’s Almost Secret Experiment in a Novel
in Threes

David Lerner Schwartz on the Tripartite Puzzle That is Telephone

By David Lerner Schwartz | August 20, 2020

If You Want to See Who Someone Really Is, Get Them on a Tennis Court

If You Want to See Who Someone Really Is, Get Them on a Tennis Court

Professional Tennis Player Andrea Petkovic on Reading Philip Roth
and Finding Hard Truths

By Andrea Petkovic | August 20, 2020

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Breaking Down the Roiling, Emotional Middle of a James Baldwin Narrative

By Daniel Joshua Rubin | August 19, 2020

In Defense of Psychoanalysis and Writing Freudian Fiction

By Jessica Gross | August 19, 2020

Mrs. Bridge Is a Perfect Novel. But How Does It Work?

By Emily Temple | August 18, 2020

The Literature of Elder Care is Often About Shifting Power Dynamics

The Literature of Elder Care is Often About Shifting Power Dynamics

Ellyn Lem on Works by Shakespeare, Lauren Fox, and Others

By Ellyn A. Lem | August 17, 2020

Finding Catharsis in the Story <br>of a Family Betrayal

Finding Catharsis in the Story
of a Family Betrayal

Darin Strauss on the Line Between Novel and Mythic Memoir

By Darin Strauss | August 17, 2020

Does Every Country Need to Have Its Own Sylvia Plath?

Does Every Country Need to Have Its Own Sylvia Plath?

Rhian Sasseen on the Inescapability of Plath for Female Writers

By Rhian Sasseen | August 17, 2020

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

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