Bill McKibben: Thoreau Suggests You Put Down Your Smartphone

Bill McKibben: Thoreau Suggests You Put Down Your Smartphone

On the Foresight and Ongoing Relevance of a Great American Thinker

By Bill McKibben | July 12, 2017

Who Cares What Straight People Think?

Who Cares What Straight People Think?

Brandon Taylor on the Uncertain State of Queer Narratives

By Brandon Taylor | July 11, 2017

Who Will Tell the Tales of American Fascism?

Who Will Tell the Tales of American Fascism?

On the Truth-Telling of Roberto Bolaño

By Veronica Esposito | July 11, 2017

Why Are We So Unwilling to Take Sylvia Plath at Her Word?

Why Are We So Unwilling to Take Sylvia Plath at Her Word?

New Letters Alleging Abuse are Only Shocking if You Haven't Been Listening

By Emily Van Duyne | July 11, 2017

Dystopia <em>is</em> Realism: The Future Is Here if You Look Closely

Dystopia is Realism: The Future Is Here if You Look Closely

Christopher Brown on How the Best Science Fiction Remixes the Present

By Christopher Brown | July 10, 2017

Tessa Hadley on Alice Munro Reading

Tessa Hadley on Alice Munro Reading "Differently"

"A Little More Abrasive, Buoyant... Defiant?"

By Tessa Hadley | July 10, 2017

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On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf

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A Close Reading of the Opening Lines to an Iconic Essay, 'On Being Ill'

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To Catch the Conscience of the President: On the Power of Theater

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How We Retell our Stories, From Shakespeare to Beckett to Anne Washburn

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Tolerance and Islamophobia in 16th-Century Spain, Not So Different from Now

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Matthew Carr Moves from Nonfiction to Fiction in Exploring Muslim Spain

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In Grief, Joan Didion's Move From Fiction to Memoir

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David Ulin on Moving from Journalism to Fiction to Memoir

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Wallace Shawn: How Should a Person Be?

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On Revenge, Punishment, Bravery, and Cowardice

By Wallace Shawn | June 13, 2017

Embrace Your Monstrous Flesh: On Women's Bodies in Horror

Embrace Your Monstrous Flesh: On Women's Bodies in Horror

"Horror films offer a fantasy space for women whose bodies betray them"

By Rebecca Harkins-Cross | June 8, 2017

Is Richard Brautigan's Most Famous Novel a Minor Masterpiece or Naive Relic?

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