The Promise and Disappointment of Virtual Reality

The Promise and Disappointment of Virtual Reality

A Cultural History of VR—And its Repeated Failure to Catch On

By Mark Riboldi | November 28, 2017

The Only Dissident Novel For Sale in Turkey

The Only Dissident Novel For Sale in Turkey

On the Lasting Impact of Madonna in a Fur Coat

By Maureen Freely | November 28, 2017

What Really Happened to the Girls at Hanging Rock?

What Really Happened to the Girls at Hanging Rock?

Maile Meloy on a 50-Year Literary Mystery

By Maile Meloy | November 27, 2017

Justice for Maggie: On George Eliot's Most Underrated Heroine

Justice for Maggie: On George Eliot's Most Underrated Heroine

Maggie Tulliver Deserves Our Praise Just as Much as Dorothea Brooke

By Rachel Vorona Cote | November 22, 2017

Long Tables, Open Bottles, and Smoke: Hanging Out with Derek Walcott

Long Tables, Open Bottles, and Smoke: Hanging Out with Derek Walcott

Sven Birkerts on Literary Life in 1980s Boston, with a Trio of Great Poets

By Sven Birkerts | November 22, 2017

<em>Call Me By Your Name</em> is an Object Lesson in Adapting Interiority

Call Me By Your Name is an Object Lesson in Adapting Interiority

You must see this movie immediately

By Emily Temple | November 20, 2017

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Reclaiming a Beloved Writer from the Brink of Disappearance

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What George Orwell Wrote About the Dangers of Nationalism

What George Orwell Wrote About the Dangers of Nationalism

On Facts, Fallacies, and Power

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You Can Never Go Back: On Loving Children's Books as an Adult

You Can Never Go Back: On Loving Children's Books as an Adult

Why Visiting Old Fictional Friends is So Bittersweet

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Latin America’s Answer to Karl Ove Knausgaard

Latin America’s Answer to Karl Ove Knausgaard

On Ricardo Piglia and His Alter Ego, Emilio Renzi

By Ilan Stavans | November 14, 2017

What We Can Learn From Multiple Translations of the Same Poem

What We Can Learn From Multiple Translations of the Same Poem

And How It Brings Us Closer to the Experience of Reading the Original

By Martha Collins | November 13, 2017

Literature Without Writing: A Survey of Texts That Aren't Texts

Literature Without Writing: A Survey of Texts That Aren't Texts

Ross Simonini on Speech, Language, and the Foundations of Storytelling

By Ross Simonini | November 13, 2017

When an Umbrella is More Than Just an Umbrella

When an Umbrella is More Than Just an Umbrella

The Potent Symbolism of Brollies, from Mary Poppins to Harry Potter

By Marion Rankine | November 10, 2017

From Midcentury Confessional Poetry to Reality TV

From Midcentury Confessional Poetry to Reality TV

How Did "Confession" Become a Dirty Word?

By Christopher Grobe | November 9, 2017

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