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Literary Hoax is the Most Underappreciated Genre

Literary Hoax is the Most Underappreciated Genre

From James Macpherson to Lee Israel to JT LeRoy, It's All Good

By J.W. McCormack | October 30, 2018

The Radical Moralist:  On Lionel Trilling's Literary Criticism

The Radical Moralist: On Lionel Trilling's Literary Criticism

Writing in the Cusp of the Victorian and Modern

By Adam Kirsch | October 30, 2018

Why Contemporary Art (and Literature) Needs More Sarcastic Critics

Why Contemporary Art (and Literature) Needs More Sarcastic Critics

César Aira Thinks We Could Use a Bit More "Whatever" in Art

By César Aira | October 29, 2018

In Gratitude for the Fierce Women of the World

In Gratitude for the Fierce Women of the World

Laird Hunt on the Women at the Center of His Novels

By Laird Hunt | October 29, 2018

The Year I Stopped Reading White People

The Year I Stopped Reading White People

Jerome Blanco on the Power of Writing What You Know

By Jerome Blanco | October 24, 2018

The Psychiatrist Who Tried To Save Sylvia Plath

The Psychiatrist Who Tried To Save Sylvia Plath

Paul Alexander on the Real "Doctor Nolan"

By Paul Alexander | October 23, 2018

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The Vulnerable Private Writings of Ernest Hemingway

By Sandra Spanier | October 23, 2018

Amy Bloom on the Legacy of Thom Jones

By Amy Bloom | October 18, 2018

Why America’s Best Political Novelist Is Required Reading in 2018

By Susan Zakin | October 17, 2018

Life Got You Down? Time to Read <em>The Master and Margarita</em>

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Or, How to Be Happy With Russian Literature

By Viv Groskop | October 16, 2018

Passing for White: A Literary History

Passing for White: A Literary History

Darryl Pinckney on the Life and Writing of Nella Larsen

By Darryl Pinckney | October 15, 2018

On the Adventuresome Dane Who Drove Across North Africa in the 1930s

On the Adventuresome Dane Who Drove Across North Africa in the 1930s

Why Knud Holmboe's Memoir is About So Much More Than Travel

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The Beats' Holy Grail: The Letter That Inspired <em>On the Road</em>

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On Neal Cassady's Rediscovered "Joan Anderson Letter"

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When a Stranger Showed Up in Our Home

When a Stranger Showed Up in Our Home

Michael Donkor on Interlopers, in Fiction and In Life

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The Queerness of Ernest Hemingway

The Queerness of Ernest Hemingway

"Hemingway came from dykes and to dykes he shall return."

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The Avid Reader: Helen Simpson on Anton Chekhov's

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