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The Radical Potential of Queer Road Novels

The Radical Potential of Queer Road Novels

Looking Beyond the Bro-Canon

By Allison Gallagher | July 25, 2017

How a Book About Grover Revealed to Me the Wide World of Literature

How a Book About Grover Revealed to Me the Wide World of Literature

From Joyce to Kafka to The Monster at the End of the Book

By David Burr Gerrard | July 18, 2017

Jane Austen's Most Widely Mocked Character is Also Her Most Subversive

Jane Austen's Most Widely Mocked Character is Also Her Most Subversive

In Defense of Pride and Prejudice's Mrs. Bennet

By Rachel Dunphy | July 18, 2017

A Woman Alone in London: On the Literature of Solitude

A Woman Alone in London: On the Literature of Solitude

"A Solitary Life is No Less Liberated Than One That is Lived More Publicly"

By Lucy Scholes | July 17, 2017

Bill McKibben: Thoreau Suggests You Put Down Your Smartphone

Bill McKibben: Thoreau Suggests You Put Down Your Smartphone

On the Foresight and Ongoing Relevance of a Great American Thinker

By Bill McKibben | July 12, 2017

Who Cares What Straight People Think?

Who Cares What Straight People Think?

Brandon Taylor on the Uncertain State of Queer Narratives

By Brandon Taylor | July 11, 2017

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Who Will Tell the Tales of American Fascism?

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Why Are We So Unwilling to Take Sylvia Plath at Her Word?

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Writing in the Shadow of a Masterpiece: On Homage

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Margot Livesy Celebrates the Joy and Anxiety of Literary Borrowing

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Systemic Cruelty, Mass Sadism, and Reading

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Was <em>Jane Eyre</em> Written as a Secret Love Letter?

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On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf

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To Catch the Conscience of the President: On the Power of Theater

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How We Retell our Stories, From Shakespeare to Beckett to Anne Washburn

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Tolerance and Islamophobia in 16th-Century Spain, Not So Different from Now

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