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“A Book About Thirst.” In Praise of Josephine Johnson’s 1934 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel

“A Book About Thirst.” In Praise of Josephine Johnson’s 1934 Pulitzer Prize-Winning Novel

Ash Davidson on Now in November

By Ash Davidson | July 19, 2022

Justin Taylor on Pursuing “Imaginative Empathy” in Memoir

Justin Taylor on Pursuing “Imaginative Empathy” in Memoir

In Conversation with Alex Higley and Lindsay Hunter on I'm a Writer But  

By I'm a Writer But | July 19, 2022

How Literature Influenced Adolescent Ideas About Love in the 18th Century

How Literature Influenced Adolescent Ideas About Love in the 18th Century

John Wood Sweet on Sex, Love and Rape Culture in Early America

By John Wood Sweet | July 19, 2022

Bad Seeds and Mad Scientists: On the Build-A-Humans of 19th-Century Literature

Bad Seeds and Mad Scientists: On the Build-A-Humans of 19th-Century Literature

Silvia Moreno-Garcia on Her Fascination With Creation Gone Awry

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia | July 19, 2022

Liska Jacobs on Leaving Los Angeles, City of “Impermanence and Unreliability”

Liska Jacobs on Leaving Los Angeles, City of “Impermanence and Unreliability”

Finding Kinship with Eve Babitz and Joan Didion

By Liska Jacobs | July 19, 2022

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Angela Ledgerwood on the Psychic Relief of Reading

In Conversation with Christopher Hermelin on So Many Damn Books

By So Many Damn Books | July 19, 2022

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More Than Just Power and Oppression: Six Books About Patriarchs

More Than Just Power and Oppression: Six Books About Patriarchs

Taymour Soomro on Stories of Resistance, Loneliness, and Inheritance.

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How Tom Stoppard Became One of the Best-Known Playwrights in the World

How Tom Stoppard Became One of the Best-Known Playwrights in the World

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

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Straddling Lusciousness and Social Consciousness in Romance

Straddling Lusciousness and Social Consciousness in Romance

Angelina Lopez Guests on the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

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Making Change: 10 Books Where Small Changes Add Up to a Big Payoff

Making Change: 10 Books Where Small Changes Add Up to a Big Payoff

Sue Mell on Tayari Jones, Morgan Thomas, and More

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The Common Sense of Magic Realism and Why <em>The Mermaid of Black Conch</em> is a “Caribbean Novel”

The Common Sense of Magic Realism and Why The Mermaid of Black Conch is a “Caribbean Novel”

Monique Roffey in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | July 18, 2022

From <em>Fleabag</em> to <em>Persuasion</em>, the Rise of the Mussy-Haired, Self-Hating Sarcasm Machine

From Fleabag to Persuasion, the Rise of the Mussy-Haired, Self-Hating Sarcasm Machine

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