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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,
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By Abby Manzella | August 13, 2019

On the Gleefully Indecent Poems of a Medieval Welsh Feminist Poet

On the Gleefully Indecent Poems of a Medieval Welsh Feminist Poet

Gwerful Mechain, Author of Classics Like "Poem to the Vagina" and "Poem to the Penis"

By Lauren Cocking | August 9, 2019

11 Famous Writers on the Genius and Influence of Shirley Jackson

11 Famous Writers on the Genius and Influence of Shirley Jackson

"Misanthropy always goes down better with a sense of humor."

By Emily Temple | August 9, 2019

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The Surreal, Virtual Worlds of Palestinian Science Fiction

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Toward a Theory of the New Weird

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Walter Benjamin: How WWI Changed the Meaning of 'Barbaric'

Walter Benjamin: How WWI Changed the Meaning of 'Barbaric'

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The Literal (and Figurative) Whiteness of<br> <em>Moby Dick</em>

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