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On Frances Burney and the Birth of 'Chick Lit'

On Frances Burney and the Birth of 'Chick Lit'

A Groundbreaking Storytelling Formula Since the 18th Century

By Gina Fattore | April 27, 2020

Guiding Me Back to My Caribbean Roots: Remembering Novelist Andrea Levy

Guiding Me Back to My Caribbean Roots: Remembering Novelist Andrea Levy

Keishel A. Williams on Fruit of the Lemon, a Classic of Immigration Lit

By Keishel A. Williams | April 24, 2020

Rebecca Solnit: On Letting Go of Certainty in a Story That Never Ends

Rebecca Solnit: On Letting Go of Certainty in a Story That Never Ends

Finding Communion in the Fairy Tales We Tell

By Rebecca Solnit | April 23, 2020

Finding a Way Forward from the Pandemic in the Words of the Poets

Finding a Way Forward from the Pandemic in the Words of the Poets

Lawrence Joseph on Robert Hayden, Etel Adnan, Adrienne Rich, and Cathy Park Hong

By Lawrence Joseph | April 22, 2020

Falling Out of Love With Modernist Literature

Falling Out of Love With Modernist Literature

Veronica Esposito on How Art Refracts Differently
Through a Life Over Time

By Veronica Esposito | April 21, 2020

William Styron's Misguided Meditation on History

William Styron's Misguided Meditation on History

Chris Tomlin Asks Who Can Claim the Story of Nat Turner

By Christopher Tomlins | April 20, 2020

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What Are the Boundaries of a Memoir?

By Beth Kephart | April 17, 2020

We Owe More to Our Young Writers: On the Relevance of the Workshop

By Ru Freeman | April 16, 2020

Life As It Really Is: Translator Richard Pevear on the Stories of Chekhov

By Richard Pevear | April 14, 2020

The Question of Homoeroticism in Whitman's Poetry

The Question of Homoeroticism in Whitman's Poetry

Mark Doty on Sexuality and 'Unspeakability' in Leaves of Grass

By Mark Doty | April 14, 2020

Fairy Tales and Facts: Siri Hustvedt on How We Read in a Pandemic

Fairy Tales and Facts: Siri Hustvedt on How We Read in a Pandemic

"Separate and Secluded" We Pass Our Days

By Siri Hustvedt | April 13, 2020

Like Talking With a Friend: Intimacy in Lucia Berlin’s Peripatetic Narratives

Like Talking With a Friend: Intimacy in Lucia Berlin’s Peripatetic Narratives

Alexandra Chang on Learning from a Master

By Alexandra Chang | April 13, 2020

Kay Ryan on the Preposterous Beauty of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Kay Ryan on the Preposterous Beauty of Gerard Manley Hopkins

One Legendary Poet Analyzes Another

By Kay Ryan | April 13, 2020

The West in Pieces: On the Reimagined Grammar(s) of C. Pam Zhang

The West in Pieces: On the Reimagined Grammar(s) of C. Pam Zhang

Christian Kiefer on a Debut Novel That Rewrites the Hills of California

By Christian Kiefer | April 9, 2020

Writing From Within the Rosenberg Family Legacy

Writing From Within the Rosenberg Family Legacy

Ellen Meeropol on the Novel That Took Two Decades to Write

By Ellen Meeropol | April 9, 2020

The Listening World: Neurodivergent Voices for a More-Than-Human World

The Listening World: Neurodivergent Voices for a More-Than-Human World

Chris Martin on What We Can Learn From Each Other—and the Natural World

By Chris Martin | April 8, 2020

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