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The Forgotten History of American Working-Class Literature

The Forgotten History of American Working-Class Literature

And the Recent Movement to Restore its Place in the Canon

By Amanda Arnold | May 1, 2017

On Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Vladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevich

On Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Vladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevich

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How Hollywood Segregates Eternity

How Hollywood Segregates Eternity

Harmony Holiday on the Misrepresented Layers of the Black Experience in the West

By Harmony Holiday | April 26, 2017

F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Psychic Cost of Selling Out

F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Psychic Cost of Selling Out

$55,000 for a Magazine Feature? It's Hard to Blame Him

By Anne Margaret Daniel | April 25, 2017

Murakami vs. Bolaño: Competing Visions of the Global Novel

Murakami vs. Bolaño: Competing Visions of the Global Novel

What Should International Fiction Accomplish?

By Adam Kirsch | April 24, 2017

How I Learned to Love the Weird, From Octavia Butler to Kelly Link

How I Learned to Love the Weird, From Octavia Butler to Kelly Link

Brian Francis Slattery Finds a Home in the Strange and Unsettling

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Race is the Original American Fiction

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In Defense of Worldbuilding

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I Love <em>The Great Gatsby</em>, Even if it Doesn't Love Me Back

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If Fiction Changes the World, It's Going to Be YA

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