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Daniel Mendelsohn Makes a Powerful Case for the<br> Art of Digression

Daniel Mendelsohn Makes a Powerful Case for the
Art of Digression

The Author of Three Rings talks to John Freeman About Homer, Storytelling, and More

By John Freeman | September 9, 2020

Five Years Later: On the Enduring Legacy of <em>All American Boys</em>

Five Years Later: On the Enduring Legacy of All American Boys

And Why Its Authors, Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely Wish It Would Go Out of Print

By Katy Hershberger | September 9, 2020

On Albery Allson Whitman, Radical Black Poet of the Reconstruction

On Albery Allson Whitman, Radical Black Poet of the Reconstruction

A 19th-Century Vision of Black and Native American Resistance

By Matt Sandler | September 9, 2020

Before the Essay, the Lecture: Nonfiction's Lost Performative

Before the Essay, the Lecture: Nonfiction's Lost Performative

Mary Cappello Takes up a Question Virginia Woolf Once Asked

By Mary Cappello | September 9, 2020

The Magic of Everyday Life is Preserved in Ganda Folklore

The Magic of Everyday Life is Preserved in Ganda Folklore

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi on the Rich Oral Traditions
of Her People

By Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi | September 9, 2020

Why It's Worth Reading T.S. Eliot's <em>The Waste Land</em> (Even When It's a Slog)

Why It's Worth Reading T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land (Even When It's a Slog)

This Week on The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | September 8, 2020

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The Death of Vivek Oji by Akwaeke Emezi, read by Yetide Badaki and Chukwudi Iwuji

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William Gay Was Never Too Busy for Life's Smaller Moments

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On the Children's Book So Bad, So Inauthentic... It Was Good?

By NewberyTart | September 4, 2020

"Will I Come to a Miserable End?" Jenny Erpenbeck on Thomas Mann

"He succeeds in inverting the order of farce and tragedy."

By Jenny Erpenbeck | September 3, 2020

A University Press Looks Back on a Century of Publishing

A University Press Looks Back on a Century of Publishing

.University of Washington Press Chooses Some of Its
Favorites Over the Years

By Literary Hub | September 3, 2020

The 45 Best Bad Amazon Reviews of <em>In Cold Blood</em>

The 45 Best Bad Amazon Reviews of In Cold Blood

"The novel is ultimately a LIE."

By Emily Temple | September 2, 2020

<em>Reading Women</em> Recommends Anthologies, AKA Literary Buffets

Reading Women Recommends Anthologies, AKA Literary Buffets

Reading Women Introduces This Month's Theme

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When a 13th-Century Essay Hits Close to Home

When a 13th-Century Essay Hits Close to Home

Literary Disco Discusses "Hojoki: or, An Account of My Hut"

By Literary Disco | September 1, 2020

The Humble Confidence of Seamus Heaney

The Humble Confidence of Seamus Heaney

R. F. Foster on the Poet's Roots, Influences, and Individuality

By R. F. Foster | August 31, 2020

On the Experimental Realism of an Eccentric Russian Anglophile

On the Experimental Realism of an Eccentric Russian Anglophile

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