How the Corvette Helped Create Southern California Cool

How the Corvette Helped Create Southern California Cool

Peter Lunenfeld on Joan Didion and Angelyne

By Peter Lunenfeld | August 13, 2020

Nathalie Sarraute: Between Genders and Genres

Nathalie Sarraute: Between Genders and Genres

Ann Jefferson on the Author's Early Tropisms

By Ann Jefferson | August 13, 2020

Yearning for My Grandmother Muriel Rukeyser (and Grappling With Her Legacy)

Yearning for My Grandmother Muriel Rukeyser (and Grappling With Her Legacy)

Rebecca Rukeyser Confronts the History of Her Own Family

By Rebecca Rukeyser | August 12, 2020

Cree LeFavour on the Pleasures of the Limitless Reread

Cree LeFavour on the Pleasures of the Limitless Reread

The Author of Private Means Recommends Her Favorite Books to Revisit

By Cree LeFavour | August 12, 2020

40 Hamlets, Ranked

40 Hamlets, Ranked

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

By Emily Temple | August 11, 2020

The Racist History of Celebrating the American Tomboy

The Racist History of Celebrating the American Tomboy

Lisa Selin Davis on the Endless Privileges Accorded to White Girls

By Lisa Selin Davis | August 11, 2020

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When One Doctor-Turned-Novelist Reads Another

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My Father: The Genius, The Poet, Richard Eberhart

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On Flannery O’Connor’s Chronic Illness... and Chronic Racism

On Flannery O’Connor’s Chronic Illness... and Chronic Racism

Maggie Levantovskaya Searches for Literary Narratives of Lupus

By Maggie Levantovskaya | August 6, 2020

Learning to Write From Willie Nelson and One of the Greatest Albums of the 1970s

Learning to Write From Willie Nelson and One of the Greatest Albums of the 1970s

Odie Lindsey on POV Shifts and Moral Dilemmas on
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By Odie Lindsey | August 5, 2020

A Taxonomy of Nonfiction; <br>Or the Pleasures of Precision

A Taxonomy of Nonfiction;
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Karen Babine on the Peculiarities of Genre, Form, and More

By Karen Babine | August 3, 2020

The Essential Steven Millhauser: Where to Start With An Underrated American Master

The Essential Steven Millhauser: Where to Start With An Underrated American Master

Spoiler Alert: It's Not With Martin Dressler

By Emily Temple | August 3, 2020

Jeet Heer on the Complex Origins of Little Orphan Annie

Jeet Heer on the Complex Origins of Little Orphan Annie

"No one story can completely explain Annie."

By Jeet Heer | August 3, 2020

Joy Williams on the Troubling Grace and Strange Assurances of Brad Watson's Work

Joy Williams on the Troubling Grace and Strange Assurances of Brad Watson's Work

loneliness and wonder."">"He could be appallingly funny yet tap into a grievous
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On Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis's Rise to the Top of Brazilian Literature

On Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis's Rise to the Top of Brazilian Literature

Robin Patterson and Margaret Jull Costa Trace the Author's Beginnings

By Robin Patterson and Margaret Jull Costa | August 3, 2020

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