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How
Heart of Darkness
Revealed the Horror of Congo's Rubber Trade
Conrad's Novel Led to Investigation (and Legislation) of Human Rights Abuses
By
Maya Jasanoff
| December 7, 2017
Ursula K. Le Guin: Who Cares About the Great American Novel?
Against a Uselessly Competitive, Hopelessly Gendered Concept
By
Ursula K. Le Guin
| December 6, 2017
Against the Attention Economy: Short Stories Are Not Quick Literary Fixes
Brandon Taylor, in Praise of Slow Reading
By
Brandon Taylor
| December 6, 2017
Whatever Happened to the Ecstasy of Art?
Arts Policy, Like All Policy, is Now Dominated by the Language of Managerialism
By
Jules Evans
| December 6, 2017
The Other Invisibles of Ralph Ellison's
Invisible Man
Gabrielle Bellot on the Othering of Caribbeans and Africans in America
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| December 1, 2017
The New Bad Girls of Contemporary Literature
How Myriam Gurba is Refreshing a Punk Confessional Tradition
By
Ruby Brunton
| December 1, 2017
Best Reviewed
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As the World Ends, Has the Time for Grieving Arrived?
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Sue Sinclair
| December 1, 2017
Some Baffling Omissions From the NY Times' 100 Notable Books List
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Literary Hub
| November 30, 2017
Beyond "Lyric Shame": Ben Lerner on Claudia Rankine and Maggie Nelson
By
Ben Lerner
| November 29, 2017
Anne of Green Gables: Patron Saint of Girls Who Ask Too Many Questions
J. Courtney Sullivan in Praise of an Iconic Character
By
J. Courtney Sullivan
| November 28, 2017
The Promise and Disappointment of Virtual Reality
A Cultural History of VR—And its Repeated Failure to Catch On
By
Mark Riboldi
| November 28, 2017
The Only Dissident Novel For Sale in Turkey
On the Lasting Impact of
Madonna in a Fur Coat
By
Maureen Freely
| November 28, 2017
What Really Happened to the Girls at Hanging Rock?
Maile Meloy on a 50-Year Literary Mystery
By
Maile Meloy
| November 27, 2017
Justice for Maggie: On George Eliot's Most Underrated Heroine
Maggie Tulliver Deserves Our Praise Just as Much as Dorothea Brooke
By
Rachel Vorona Cote
| November 22, 2017
Long Tables, Open Bottles, and Smoke: Hanging Out with Derek Walcott
Sven Birkerts on Literary Life in 1980s Boston, with a Trio of Great Poets
By
Sven Birkerts
| November 22, 2017
Call Me By Your Name
is an Object Lesson in Adapting Interiority
You must see this movie immediately
By
Emily Temple
| November 20, 2017
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