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Silence: Tool, Weapon, Gift, Myth?

Silence: Tool, Weapon, Gift, Myth?

On John Cage, Muzak, Noise, Torture, and More

By Michael Fallon | December 15, 2015

Writers at Work: The Year in Collected Essays

Writers at Work: The Year in Collected Essays

On 12 Books (and 4,554 Pages) by Journalists, Critics, Columnists, and Contributors

By Jonathan Russell Clark | December 14, 2015

Knausgaard Writes Like a Woman

Knausgaard Writes Like a Woman

Siri Hustvedt on Gendered Literature and the Feminization of Feelings

By Siri Hustvedt | December 10, 2015

A Lost Literary Legend of Iowa City

A Lost Literary Legend of Iowa City

On Mark Costello, the Midwest and The Murphy Stories

By Matthew Neill Null | December 10, 2015

Algeria After Camus

Algeria After Camus

The Missing History of Kamel Daoud's The Meursault Investigation

By Namara Smith | December 8, 2015

How The Literary Class System Is Impoverishing Literature

How The Literary Class System Is Impoverishing Literature

On the Systemic Economic Barriers to Being a Writer

By Lorraine Berry | December 4, 2015

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By Rebecca Solnit | November 18, 2015

Ordinary Paris and the Art of Noticing

Ordinary Paris and the Art of Noticing

On Seeing Georges Perec's Infraordinary World

By Lauren Elkin | November 17, 2015

The Ever-Expanding World of David Mitchell

The Ever-Expanding World of David Mitchell

One Novel Out of Many, Filled With Eternally Recurring Characters

By Jonathan Russell Clark | November 16, 2015

Why We Read (And Write) Short Stories

Why We Read (And Write) Short Stories

Lorrie Moore on the form "second to none in power and efficiency"

By Lorrie Moore | November 6, 2015

Digging Through Kathy Acker’s Stuff

Digging Through Kathy Acker’s Stuff

Dodie Bellamy on the Intimacy of Wearing Acker's Clothes and Words

By Dodie Bellamy | November 6, 2015

Captain Fiction and the Gods of the Page

Captain Fiction and the Gods of the Page

Noy Holland on her Mentor, Gordon Lish

By Noy Holland | November 5, 2015

Breaking Up with Holden Caulfield

Breaking Up with Holden Caulfield

On Revisiting The Catcher in the Rye as an Adult

By Alison Currie | November 5, 2015

Witches, Demons, Mystics: When Writers Cross the Supernatural Line

Witches, Demons, Mystics: When Writers Cross the Supernatural Line

Is There Such a Thing as Magical Realist Non-Fiction?

By Tobias Carroll | October 30, 2015

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