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Jane Austen, Gritty Educational Reformer of the Working Class

Jane Austen, Gritty Educational Reformer of the Working Class

Janine Barchas on How the Proliferation of Penny Editions
Brought Literature to the Masses

By Janine Barchas | February 4, 2020

Capitalism Has Distorted Desire in the #MeToo Era

Capitalism Has Distorted Desire in the #MeToo Era

A Brief History of Literary Seduction

By Clement Knox | February 4, 2020

Was 'The Burning' the Hardest Story for Eudora Welty<br> To Write?

Was 'The Burning' the Hardest Story for Eudora Welty
To Write?

Disavowing the Rituals of the American Civil War

By Susan V. Donaldson | February 4, 2020

On <em>My Dark Vanessa</em> and the Way Stories of Trauma Get Told

On My Dark Vanessa and the Way Stories of Trauma Get Told

Red Newsom Considers the Line Between Experience and Fiction

By Red Newsom | February 3, 2020

What the Great Russian Writers Didn't Get About the Criminal Mind

What the Great Russian Writers Didn't Get About the Criminal Mind

Varlam Shamalov Served 15 Years in a Soviet Labor Camp

By Varlam Shalamov | February 3, 2020

Mourning Jade Sharma, Her Irreverence, Her Audacity

Mourning Jade Sharma, Her Irreverence, Her Audacity

Melissa Mesku Remembers the Author of Problems

By Melissa Mesku | February 3, 2020

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By Literary Hub | January 31, 2020

How Robert Bly Helped Create a Thriving Ecosystem of Minnesota Writers

By Mark Gustafson | January 31, 2020

It Was Never About Economic Anxiety: On the Book That Foresaw the Rise of Trump

By Samuel Freedman | January 30, 2020

Dear Oprah Winfrey: 142 Writers Ask You to Reconsider <em>American Dirt</em>

Dear Oprah Winfrey: 142 Writers Ask You to Reconsider American Dirt

By 141 Writers | January 29, 2020

When Did Self-Help Books Become Literary?

When Did Self-Help Books Become Literary?

Beth Blum on a Debate Over Bookish Advice That Goes
As Far Back as the Renaissance

By Beth Blum | January 29, 2020

On One of the Greatest Children's Ghost Books Ever Published

On One of the Greatest Children's Ghost Books Ever Published

Jessica Mesman Griffith Revisits the “Hauntology“ of
Ghosts at the End of the World

By Jessica Mesman Griffith | January 29, 2020

The Machines Are Coming, and They Write Really Bad Poetry

The Machines Are Coming, and They Write Really Bad Poetry

(But Don't Tell Them We Said So)

By Dennis Tang | January 27, 2020

Rewiring the American Mind: On Tracy K. Smith and the Future of America’s Civic Identity

Rewiring the American Mind: On Tracy K. Smith and the Future of America’s Civic Identity

Jonathan Reiber Considers the State of the Union in the Most Important Election Year in Its History

By Jonathan Reiber | January 27, 2020

Did Tolkien Write <em>The Lord of the Rings</em> Because He Was Avoiding His Academic Work?

Did Tolkien Write The Lord of the Rings Because He Was Avoiding His Academic Work?

How a Literary Icon Always Felt Guilty About His
Failings With Chaucer

By John M. Bowers | January 27, 2020

Patrick Modiano on the Bookshop Owner Who Escaped the Nazis

Patrick Modiano on the Bookshop Owner Who Escaped the Nazis

Françoise Frenkel's No Place to Lay One’s Head Belongs in the Company of Literary Giants

By Patrick Modiano | January 27, 2020

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