Why Does Women's Writing About Relationships Need to be “Relatable”?

Why Does Women's Writing About Relationships Need to be “Relatable”?

Hint: It's a Word Men Use to Describe Their Writing in Order to Diminish It

By Blythe Roberson | January 10, 2019

The Unexpected Literary Pleasure of Marijuana Reviews

The Unexpected Literary Pleasure of Marijuana Reviews

Walk With Us Through a Transcendent Corner of the Internet

By Taylor Lannamann | January 9, 2019

Marcel Proust Was Almost Impossible to Edit

Marcel Proust Was Almost Impossible to Edit

Carol Clark on the Challenges of Editing and Translating The Prisoner

By Carol Clark | January 8, 2019

On the Freaky Foods of Fictional Worlds

On the Freaky Foods of Fictional Worlds

From Abundance to Scarcity, What Eating in Sci-Fi Says About the Real World

By Lizzy Saxe | January 7, 2019

Toward an Expanded Canon of Black Literature

Toward an Expanded Canon of Black Literature

How Some Black Writers Live, and Some Die

By Mateo Askaripour | January 3, 2019

Reading Feminist Futurism in the Age of the “Female” Virtual Assistant

Reading Feminist Futurism in the Age of the “Female” Virtual Assistant

Images of Empowerment in the Literary Cyborg

By Samantha Edmonds | January 3, 2019

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On Dickens’ Demons and Weird Relationship with Christmas

By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst | December 20, 2018

What Happened to the Original Version of The Waste Land?

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Stop Trying to Make <i>Pride and Prejudice</i> a Christmas Story

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By Devoney Looser | December 17, 2018

On Sylvia Plath and the Many Shades of Depression

On Sylvia Plath and the Many Shades of Depression

Gabrielle Bellot Considers How a Writer's Work is Measured Against Her Death

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 13, 2018

Oliverio Girondo's Absurd Cosmopolitan World

Oliverio Girondo's Absurd Cosmopolitan World

Meet the Flamboyant Poet of the Argentine Avant-Garde

By Harris Feinsod and Rachel Galvin | December 13, 2018

Rewriting Trauma: The Business of Storytelling in the Age of the Algorithm

Rewriting Trauma: The Business of Storytelling in the Age of the Algorithm

Screenwriter James Schamus on What Goes Into the TV You're Binge-Watching

By James Schamus | December 12, 2018

On James Baldwin's Dispatches from the Heart of the Civil Rights Movement

On James Baldwin's Dispatches from the Heart of the Civil Rights Movement

The Making of an Iconic Essayist

By Ed Pavlić | December 10, 2018

Poet of the Disappeared: On the Writing of Raúl Zurita

Poet of the Disappeared: On the Writing of Raúl Zurita

"There is power and agency in staying in a dangerous place when one has the choice to leave."

By Norma Cole | December 7, 2018

Of Willa Cather's Lasting Love For the Frontier

Of Willa Cather's Lasting Love For the Frontier

"I Do Think My Heart Never Got Across the Missouri River.”

By Catherine Pond | December 7, 2018

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