Jonathan Lethem on the Lost Conversations of Ross Macdonald

Jonathan Lethem on the Lost Conversations of Ross Macdonald

Getting Inside the Head of a 20th-Century Literary Master

By Kevin Avery | October 13, 2016

Lean in, Swipe Right: On Tinder and the Politics of Singledom

Lean in, Swipe Right: On Tinder and the Politics of Singledom

Bridget Read Considers the Future of Sex, and Emily Witt's Future Sex

By Bridget Read | October 13, 2016

It Breaks Before it Bends: On Donika Kelly's Black Girl Poetry

It Breaks Before it Bends: On Donika Kelly's Black Girl Poetry

Nikky Finney in Praise of a Psalm of Pure Resolve

By Nikky Finney | October 13, 2016

The Literature of Creepy Clowns

The Literature of Creepy Clowns

If They're Coming, You Might As Well Be Prepared...

By Tobias Carroll | October 7, 2016

How Bad Writing Destroyed the World

How Bad Writing Destroyed the World

On the Origin of Ayn Rand's Thinking, and a Manchurian Economist Named Greenspan

By Adam Weiner | October 6, 2016

Why Every American Should Read <em>The Reluctant Fundamentalist</em>

Why Every American Should Read The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Gabrielle Bellot on Radical Difference in the Age of Trump

By Gabrielle Bellot | October 5, 2016

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On the Heterodox Jewishness of Clarice Lispector

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Elizabeth Greenwood on the middle-aged fantasy of pseudocide

By Elizabeth Greenwood | September 26, 2016

How <em>Peyton Place</em> Comforted Me as a Closeted Teenager

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Revisiting Grace Metalious's Notorious Novel 60 Years Later

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Edith Wharton's Indictment of Gilded Age Inequality: Still Relevant

Edith Wharton's Indictment of Gilded Age Inequality: Still Relevant

On The House of Mirth, Thomas Piketty, and the Literature of Income Inequality

By Colette Shade | September 22, 2016

What About a Woman's Right to Idleness?

What About a Woman's Right to Idleness?

On the Work of Writing and Leopoldine Core's When Watched

By Emily Harnett | September 21, 2016

Fear and Loathing in New England: Lev Grossman Looks Back at His First Novel

Fear and Loathing in New England: Lev Grossman Looks Back at His First Novel

"I wasn’t really a slacker; I was more just a loser."

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Namrata Poddar on the Western Preference for Visual Over Oral Storytelling

By Namrata Poddar | September 20, 2016

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