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Neil Gaiman on the Great Kathy Acker

Neil Gaiman on the Great Kathy Acker

Rereading Pussy, King of the Pirates

By Neil Gaiman | February 12, 2021

Shortcuts to Identity: How We Tell Asian American Stories

Shortcuts to Identity: How We Tell Asian American Stories

Simon Han on What We Talk About When We Talk About Amy Tan

By Simon Han | February 12, 2021

25 Actually Pretty Happy Couples in Literature

25 Actually Pretty Happy Couples in Literature

Listen Guys, We Need This

By Literary Hub | February 12, 2021

The Hidden Narrative in <em>Middlemarch</em> That 2021 Readers Will Spot

The Hidden Narrative in Middlemarch That 2021 Readers Will Spot

Diana Rose Newby on George Eliot's Approach to Contagion

By Diana Rose Newby | February 12, 2021

Daydreams and Fragments: On How We Retrieve Images<br> From the Past

Daydreams and Fragments: On How We Retrieve Images
From the Past

Maël Renouard Explores the Relationship Between
Memory and Technology

By Maël Renouard | February 12, 2021

On Taking Kink Seriously: A Reading List

On Taking Kink Seriously: A Reading List

Garth Greenwell and R.O. Kwon Recommend Artists Who Inspire Them

By Garth Greenwell and R.O. Kwon | February 11, 2021

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Why is 20th-Century Literature So Obsessed with Normality?

By Lit Century | February 9, 2021

Vendela Vida on Finding Humor in the Darker Side of
Teenage Life

By Jane Ciabattari | February 9, 2021

A Brief History of Metaphor in
Persian Poetry

By Dick Davis | February 9, 2021

When Talking About Poetry Online <br>Goes Very Wrong

When Talking About Poetry Online
Goes Very Wrong

On Ciaran Carson and the Importance of Low-Stakes Conversations in the “Small Back Room”

By Wayne Miller | February 8, 2021

Mastering the Art of the Lockdown Book Recommendation

Mastering the Art of the Lockdown Book Recommendation

With Lockdown Libraries, Clemmie Jackson-Stops Asks Readers to Think Beyond Genre and Taste

By Tyler Wetherall | February 8, 2021

Chigozie Obioma: ‘I Really Do Believe That Fiction Should Say More Than One Thing’

Chigozie Obioma: ‘I Really Do Believe That Fiction Should Say More Than One Thing’

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast

By History of Literature | February 8, 2021

How Translation Brought Me Home to Tunisia

How Translation Brought Me Home to Tunisia

Lara Vergnaud Navigates Yamen Manai's The Ardent Swarm

By Lara Vergnaud | February 8, 2021

On the Complexity of Using the Mango as a Symbol in Diasporic Literature

On the Complexity of Using the Mango as a Symbol in Diasporic Literature

Urvi Kumbhat Maps a Personal Genealogy of the Fruit

By Urvi Kumbhat | February 8, 2021

On the Unconventional 19th-Century Women Who Ventured to Write Novels

On the Unconventional 19th-Century Women Who Ventured to Write Novels

Rosalind Miles Considers Progress, Change, and "Lady Novelists"

By Rosalind Miles | February 5, 2021

<em>Egyptian Nights and Other Tales of Romance and Imagination</em> by Alexander Pushkin, Read by Stefan Rudnicki

Egyptian Nights and Other Tales of Romance and Imagination by Alexander Pushkin, Read by Stefan Rudnicki

Explore Classic Stories of Russian Literature

By Behind the Mic | February 5, 2021

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