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On the Dangerous AIDS Myth of 'Patient Zero,' and the Book That Started It All

On the Dangerous AIDS Myth of 'Patient Zero,' and the Book That Started It All

How Convenient Storylines Can Ruin Lives

By Harron Walker | December 1, 2016

Ntozake Shange: On a Brilliant Balance of Anger and Poetry

Ntozake Shange: On a Brilliant Balance of Anger and Poetry

Michael Denneny on This Year's Langston Hughes Medal Winner

By Michael Denneny | December 1, 2016

The Gifts of Reading Are Many

The Gifts of Reading Are Many

Robert Macfarlane Reflects on What You Give When You Give a Book

By Robert Macfarlane | November 30, 2016

A Feminist Thoreau

A Feminist Thoreau

On the Adirondack Woodswoman Anne LaBastille

By Rafia Zakaria | November 30, 2016

Storytelling vs. Oversharing in the Age of Snapchat

Storytelling vs. Oversharing in the Age of Snapchat

On the work of Rachel Cusk, Claire-Louise Bennett, and Eimear McBride

By Clare Sestanovich | November 29, 2016

How Pacifism Can Lead to Violence and Conflict

How Pacifism Can Lead to Violence and Conflict

Miriam Toews on the Conflicts that Arise from Mennonites' Non-Conflict

By Miriam Toews | November 28, 2016

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The Bolaño Effect: Latin American Literature in Translation

By Nathan Scott McNamara | November 18, 2016

Thoreau Was Actually Funny as Hell

Thoreau Was Actually Funny as Hell

The Walden Author Isn't a Misanthrope—Just Misunderstood

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Harry Potter is Actually a Great Narrative Frame for Good and Evil

Harry Potter is Actually a Great Narrative Frame for Good and Evil

Stop Policing the Literary Reference Points of Others

By Emily Temple | November 15, 2016

What Can Historical Fiction Accomplish That History Does Not?

What Can Historical Fiction Accomplish That History Does Not?

On Time, the Past, and Einstein's Theory of Relativity

By Sabina Murray | November 10, 2016

How We Talk About Women's Lives

How We Talk About Women's Lives

New Ways of Storytelling, From Maggie Nelson to Lily Hoang to Claudia Rankine

By Kelcey Parker Ervick | November 9, 2016

A Young Woman Called Death...

A Young Woman Called Death...

On Neil Gaiman, the Sandman Series, and the Way We Gender the Grim Reaper

By Gabrielle Bellot | November 1, 2016

On the Perilous Potential of Feminist Silence

On the Perilous Potential of Feminist Silence

Clarice Lispector, Alejandra Pizarnik, and Poetic Voice(lessness)

By Carina del Valle Schorske | November 1, 2016

Every House is a Haunted House

Every House is a Haunted House

Why is So Much of Horror About the Home?

By Tyler Malone | October 31, 2016

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