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On a New Generation of Villainous Women, From Witches to Wicked Stepmothers
How Contemporary Writers Are Reframing Narratives Around Female Characters
By
Alexis Gunderson
| May 16, 2019
On Robert Caro, Great Men, and the Problem of Powerful Women in Biography
Caroline Fraser: “Power and ambition in women are often hidden, buried, shrouded, disguised, crushed, thwarted, mocked, warped, punished, or excoriated.”
By
Caroline Fraser
| May 16, 2019
Is Masculinity a Terrorist Ideology?
Lacy Johnson on Rachel Louise Snyder and the Ways We Name Violence
By
Lacy M. Johnson
| May 15, 2019
The 36 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of
Mrs. Dalloway
"Let us listen to an old farty woman stream her consciousness to us."
By
Emily Temple
| May 14, 2019
Joanna Scutts on How We Find—and Lose—Women Writers
Exhumations and Revelations, from Zora Neale Hurston
to Bette Howland
By
Joanna Scutts
| May 13, 2019
16 Poet Biopics, Ranked
"Dead gay poets? Erotic violence? Sounds like a DiCaprio project."
By
Emily Temple
| May 8, 2019
Best Reviewed
Books of the Week
What Would It Mean to Live in
a World Without Stories?
By
Alexis Wright
| May 8, 2019
Rebecca Solnit on Setting
Cinderella
Free for Contemporary Readers
By
Rebecca Solnit
| May 7, 2019
On Elizabeth Bishop, Loss, and Coming Out After 20 Years in a Convent
By
Patricia M. Dwyer
| May 7, 2019
Reading the Selfie-Filled Memoir of Halldór Laxness
What's Not to Love About Descriptions of Food and Strong Opinions About Poets?
By
Gerður Kristný
| May 7, 2019
What Is an Australian National Literature and Who Creates It?
Nam Le on David Malouf and the Violence of World-Building
By
Nam Le
| May 6, 2019
On the Modern American Obsession with French Revolution Narratives
Because Guillotines and Eating the Rich Never Really Go Out of Style
By
Tobias Carroll
| May 3, 2019
Anjelica Huston on Finding Her Father in the Writing of Lillian Ross
the integrity of her subject."">"She maintains her own integrity and she respects
the integrity of her subject."
By
Anjelica Huston
| May 3, 2019
Finnegan's Wake
at 80:
In Defense of the Difficult
On the Pleasure of Annotating One of Literature's
Most Challenging Works
By
Susie Lopez
| May 3, 2019
Dear Reader: Eileen Myles on Kathy Acker
On the Novel
Great Expectations
By
Eileen Myles
| May 2, 2019
Happy birthday, Joseph Heller! Here's a gift: a classic review of
Catch-22.
By
Katie Yee
| May 1, 2019
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