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How to Skewer a Novel: Éric Chevillard on Florian Zeller

How to Skewer a Novel: Éric Chevillard on Florian Zeller

A Legendary French Critic Weighs in on "a book to laugh at and then forget."

By Eric Chevillard | October 30, 2017

The Many Faces of Sylvia Plath

The Many Faces of Sylvia Plath

In Focusing Too Much on Her Death, We Miss Her Capacity for Life

By Kelly Marie Coyne | October 27, 2017

Jean Rhys Had to Leave Her Home to Truly See It

Jean Rhys Had to Leave Her Home to Truly See It

Gabrielle Bellot on Exile, Otherness, and the Isolation of
a Great 20th-Century Writer

By Gabrielle Bellot | October 26, 2017

First-Person Stories of the Body Are Much More Than Clickbait

First-Person Stories of the Body Are Much More Than Clickbait

In Praise of Narrative Medicine

By M. Sophia Newman | October 26, 2017

How Kate Tempest Makes

How Kate Tempest Makes "Radical Empathy" More than Just a Buzzword

Her Genre-Defying Works Place Us Directly in the Heads of Others

By Eleanor Stanford | October 24, 2017

Currybooks: On Authenticity and Our Expectations of South Asian Writers

Currybooks: On Authenticity and Our Expectations of South Asian Writers

Diasporic Writers Have to Play Both Tourist and Tour Guide

By Naben Ruthnum | October 23, 2017

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

How the Oldest Stories Can Give Us the Best Perspective

By Veronica Esposito | October 23, 2017

On Borders, White Space, and Saying the Unsayable

By Sasha Pimentel | October 20, 2017

When Climate Change Comes for the Fairy Tale Forest

By Olivia Campbell | October 19, 2017

Octavia Butler: The Brutalities of the Past Are All Around This

Octavia Butler: The Brutalities of the Past Are All Around This

Gabrielle Bellot on a Writer Who Changed Her Life

By Gabrielle Bellot | October 17, 2017

14 Classic Works of Literature Hated By Famous Authors

14 Classic Works of Literature Hated By Famous Authors

"I got a little bored after a time. I mean, the road seemed to be awfully long."

By Emily Temple | October 16, 2017

Cadaverous Yet Blazing: Elizabeth Hardwick's Ode to Bartleby

Cadaverous Yet Blazing: Elizabeth Hardwick's Ode to Bartleby

An "Incurious Ghost" Who Would Really Prefer Not To

By Elizabeth Hardwick | October 13, 2017

The New Scream Queens

The New Scream Queens

Four Story Collections at the Intersection of Feminism and Horror

By Nathan Scott McNamara | October 13, 2017

The Hidden Horror Inside Jane Austen's Novels of Love

The Hidden Horror Inside Jane Austen's Novels of Love

The Call is Coming From Inside the Country Estate

By Mikaella Clements | October 13, 2017

Why the Line Between Fact and Fiction is Even Blurrier Online

Why the Line Between Fact and Fiction is Even Blurrier Online

"The Internet Offers a Secret Life to Everybody"

By Andrew O'Hagan | October 12, 2017

Jane Austen’s <em>Emma</em> Was Basically Torn Apart in Workshop

Jane Austen’s Emma Was Basically Torn Apart in Workshop

On the Early Reception of a Classic Novel, on Both Sides of the Atlantic

By Juliette Wells | October 11, 2017

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