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Bad Faith Backlash: Arguing Online With Everyone and No One
The Last Jedi, and the Internet of Takes">On "Cat Person,"
The Last Jedi
, and the Internet of Takes
By
M. C. Mah
| January 22, 2018
In California, Visions of Defiance and Grace
Finding Political Inspiration in the Unlikeliest of Places: The Opera
By
Veronica Esposito
| January 22, 2018
How to Read Caves
From Tennessee's Tuckaleechee Caverns to the
Caves of John Keats, Virgil, and Virginia Woolf
By
Susan Harlan
| January 19, 2018
The Literature of Bad Sex
Hermione Hoby on Power, Eros, and the Perfect Timing of 'Cat Person'
By
Hermione Hoby
| January 18, 2018
Good Writers Borrow, Great Writers Remix
Why It’s Ok to Reuse, Repurpose, and Recycle Fiction
By
Lincoln Michel
| January 12, 2018
Surviving 2017 with Borges: On the Art of Wonder and Wonder of Art
Considering Good, Evil, Nazis, and All the What-Ifs That Make a Life
By
Gabrielle Bellot
| January 10, 2018
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Hot Sex With Sea Monsters: A Comparative Study
By
Emily Temple
| January 9, 2018
Mothers, Daughters, Lovers: On the Groundbreaking Art of Kathleen Collins
By
Danielle Jackson
| January 3, 2018
J.M. Coetzee: Eight Ways of Looking at Samuel Beckett
By
J.M. Coetzee
| January 2, 2018
Haunted by the Ghosts of Henry James and Jean Rhys
Maud Casey on the Mysteries of Literature
By
Maud Casey
| January 2, 2018
Ali Smith on the Prescient Genius of J.G. Ballard
Super-Cannes
: A Perfect Novel of the Millenium
By
Ali Smith
| December 28, 2017
Is
Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas
a Work of Genius?
On Russell and Lillian Hoban, Giants of 20th-Century Children's Literature
By
Rebecca Rego Barry
| December 20, 2017
The Privilege of Plotlessness
Lynn Steger Strong on Reading About Rich People While the World Burns
By
Lynn Steger Strong
| December 18, 2017
A Close Reading of the Best Opening Paragraph of All Time
From Shirley Jackson's
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
, of course
By
Emily Temple
| December 15, 2017
The Bloody Catharsis of Femme Revenge
Seeking Out Stories of Women Who are Finished Rising Above
By
Emma C. Eisenberg
| December 13, 2017
Against the Bad Sex in Fiction Award
A Critically Misguided (and Ultimately Meaningless) Tradition
By
TD Storm
| December 12, 2017
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Joseph Moldover on What Being a Psychologist Taught Him About Writing Crime
April 21, 2026
by
Joseph Moldover
Brittany Butler on Joining the CIA, Tradecraft, and Writing True-to-Life Spy Fiction
April 21, 2026
by
Brittany Butler
Ande Pliego on the Marvelous Libraries That Inspired Her New Novel
April 20, 2026
by
Ande Pliego
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