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In the Age of Endless Scrolling, Jun’ichiro Tanizaki Helps Us Stand Still

In the Age of Endless Scrolling, Jun’ichiro Tanizaki Helps Us Stand Still

When Attention to Detail is a Subversive Move

By Kanako Nishi | August 19, 2019

The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of <em>Lolita</em>

The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Lolita

"Too much French."

By Emily Temple | August 16, 2019

Plunging Into the 1970s' Altered States of Awareness

Plunging Into the 1970s' Altered States of Awareness

Buzz Poole on Erik Davis’s High Weirdness

By Buzz Poole | August 16, 2019

Thank God for the Sex I Found in My Mother's Romance Novels

Thank God for the Sex I Found in My Mother's Romance Novels

Isabelle Davis on Finding Just the Right Books at Just the Right Time

By Isabelle Davis | August 15, 2019

Roy Jacobsen on the Backbone of Nordic Literature: the Sagas of Iceland

Roy Jacobsen on the Backbone of Nordic Literature: the Sagas of Iceland

Some of Europe's Most Enduring, Complex Literary Works

By Roy Jacobsen | August 14, 2019

A Literature of Belonging: Stories of Real America

A Literature of Belonging: Stories of Real America

Abby Manzella Recommends Books by Sarah Broom,
Cristina Henríquez and More

By Abby Manzella | August 13, 2019

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On the Gleefully Indecent Poems of a Medieval Welsh Feminist Poet

By Lauren Cocking | August 9, 2019

11 Famous Writers on the Genius and Influence of Shirley Jackson

By Emily Temple | August 9, 2019

The Surreal, Virtual Worlds of Palestinian Science Fiction

By Bhakti Shringarpure | August 9, 2019

On the History (and Future) of YA and Speculative Fiction by Black Women

On the History (and Future) of YA and Speculative Fiction by Black Women

Stephanie Toliver on Not Deferring the Dream of Black Girls Being Represented in YASF

By Stephanie Toliver | August 8, 2019

The Novel F. Scott Fitzgerald <br>Never Wrote

The Novel F. Scott Fitzgerald
Never Wrote

A Romantic Drama Against the Backdrop of History

By Anne Margaret Daniel | August 7, 2019

We'll Always Have Paris: On the Enduring Appeal of Ex-Pat Lit

We'll Always Have Paris: On the Enduring Appeal of Ex-Pat Lit

Elliott Holt Revisits Alison Lurie's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel, Foreign Affairs

By Elliott Holt | August 7, 2019

Tope Folarin on the Misguided Urge to Carve the World Into Binaries

Tope Folarin on the Misguided Urge to Carve the World Into Binaries

and?"">"Why are we in the West so deeply uncomfortable with and?"

By Tope Folarin | August 7, 2019

What I Teach: Seven Titles From a High School Class on Trauma Literature

What I Teach: Seven Titles From a High School Class on Trauma Literature

Kate McQuade on Yaa Gyasi, Art Spiegelman, Tim O'Brien, and More

By Kate McQuade | August 6, 2019

One Another: An Essay About Sex, Reading, and Mary Ruefle

One Another: An Essay About Sex, Reading, and Mary Ruefle

Gunnhild Øyehaug: "That year of reading was a year of transformation."

By Gunnhild Øyehaug | August 6, 2019

Toward a Theory of the New Weird

Toward a Theory of the New Weird

Elvia Wilk on a Feminist Understanding of Eerie Fiction

By Elvia Wilk | August 5, 2019

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