Curtis White: There's No Such Thing as Postmodernism

Curtis White: There's No Such Thing as Postmodernism

Even Some of Its Best-Known Practitioners Were Confused About It

By Curtis White | March 9, 2018

The Tragedies of Aeschylus Are Truly Timeless

The Tragedies of Aeschylus Are Truly Timeless

Ismail Kadare on the Greatest of the Greeks

By Ismail Kadare | February 26, 2018

Hannah Arendt on the Time She Met W.H. Auden

Hannah Arendt on the Time She Met W.H. Auden

Happy Birthday to the poet who thought “poetry makes nothing happen”

By Hannah Arendt | February 21, 2018

Can We Ever Escape History? On Walter Kempowski's Life's Work

Can We Ever Escape History? On Walter Kempowski's Life's Work

An Antidote to the Traumatic Experiences of a Wartime Childhood

By Jenny Erpenbeck | February 15, 2018

How Do You Write One of Humanity's Most Intimate Moments?

How Do You Write One of Humanity's Most Intimate Moments?

Toward a Unified Literary Theory of the Kiss

By Brian Turner | February 14, 2018

How Medieval Storytellers Shape Our Understanding of Romance

How Medieval Storytellers Shape Our Understanding of Romance

Matters of the Heart, from Arthurian Legend to Tristan and Isolde

By Marilyn Yalom | February 14, 2018

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On the Very Contemporary Art of Flash Fiction

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Will Self: In Praise of Difficult Novels

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'Twitter Feminists' to Katie Roiphe: This Essay is Not Very Good

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The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of James Joyce's <em>Ulysses</em>

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<em>Ulysses</em>: Good or Bad?

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Our Obsession with Lost Books, And How They Often Disappoint

Our Obsession with Lost Books, And How They Often Disappoint

Tim Wirkus on the Tension Between What is Anticipated and What is Delivered

By Tim Wirkus | January 31, 2018

The Hunter and His Gun: An American Myth That Just Won't Die

The Hunter and His Gun: An American Myth That Just Won't Die

How Daniel Boone and Last of the Mohicans Built a Colonialist Origin Story

By Roxanne Oritz-Dunbar | January 26, 2018

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