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Eric Puchner: How to Be Funny When Writing a Novel

Eric Puchner: How to Be Funny When Writing a Novel

“When in doubt, leave the reaction out.”

By Eric Puchner | February 21, 2025

Clinging to an Ardent Hope: Eli Zuzovsky on Film, Selfhood, and Being an Israeli Writer Today

Clinging to an Ardent Hope: Eli Zuzovsky on Film, Selfhood, and Being an Israeli Writer Today

Neel Mukherjee in Conversation with the Author of "Mazeltov"

By Eli Zuzovsky | February 21, 2025

WG Sebald’s <em>Rings of Saturn</em> Might Be the Perfect Climate Change Novel

WG Sebald’s Rings of Saturn Might Be the Perfect Climate Change Novel

Madeleine Watts’s on the Prescient Genius of a Hard-to-Categorize Novel

By Madeleine Watts | February 20, 2025

Am I the Literary Asshole for Thinking All Book Covers Look the Same?

Am I the Literary Asshole for Thinking All Book Covers Look the Same?

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By Kristen Arnett | February 20, 2025

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What to Read Before and After Seeing Art Spiegelman: Disaster is my Muse

Readings on the Life, Works, and Legacy of Art Spiegelman

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RaMell Ross on Adapting Colson Whitehead, Black Subjectivity, and the Epic Banal

By Brittany Allen | February 19, 2025

How Walking Shaped Simone and Hélène de Beauvoir's Art and Thought

By Annabel Abbs | February 19, 2025

Who Were the Women Novelists Who Really Inspired Jane Austen?

Who Were the Women Novelists Who Really Inspired Jane Austen?

Rebecca Romney on Unearthing a Legacy of Systematic Literary Erasure

By Rebecca Romney | February 19, 2025

How the Kremlin’s Truly Epic Adaptation of <em>War and Peace</em> Helped Me Write a Novel

How the Kremlin’s Truly Epic Adaptation of War and Peace Helped Me Write a Novel

Elyse Durham on Sergei Bondarchuk’s Seven-Hour Cinematic Classic

By Elyse Durham | February 19, 2025

Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures

Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures

The Author of “Counterculture” in Conversation with Aaron Robertson

By Aaron Robertson | February 19, 2025

Jane Austen’s Many Literary Afterlives: <br>A Reading List

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How the Girlboss Lost: Sophie Lewis on the Rise and Fall of a Feminist Moment

How the Girlboss Lost: Sophie Lewis on the Rise and Fall of a Feminist Moment

Leaning Into the Death of Lean-In Feminism and Its Many Resurrections in Our Conflicted Zeitgeist

By Sophie Lewis | February 18, 2025

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Elyse Durham on Depicting the Artistic Side of the Cold War in Fiction

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What Robert Frost’s Philosophy of the Human Spirit Says About His Artistic Ethos

What Robert Frost’s Philosophy of the Human Spirit Says About His Artistic Ethos

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