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The Avid Reader: Helen Schulman on <em>As I Lay Dying</em>

The Avid Reader: Helen Schulman on As I Lay Dying

Discovering Faulkner in College Can Very Much Change Your Life

By Helen Schulman | November 29, 2018

Does Art Originate From the Same Necessity That Gives Rise to Beehives?

Does Art Originate From the Same Necessity That Gives Rise to Beehives?

Inger Christensen Meditates on the Importance of Creation

By Inger Christensen | November 27, 2018

Why Look at Art When You Could Watch TV?

Why Look at Art When You Could Watch TV?

On John Berger's Revolutionary Art Criticism

By Joshua Sperling | November 26, 2018

Revisiting the Genius of <em>Middlemarch</em>

Revisiting the Genius of Middlemarch

On the Occasion of George Eliot's 199th Birthday Eve

By John Mullan | November 21, 2018

Stop Dismissing Inclusive Children's Books as 'Too Political'

Stop Dismissing Inclusive Children's Books as 'Too Political'

Librarian Erinn Salge on the Importance of Seeing Yourself on the Page

By Erinn Salge | November 21, 2018

Before the Neapolitan Quartet,  There Was <em>Sula</em>

Before the Neapolitan Quartet, There Was Sula

Why Was Only One of These An International Phenomenon?

By Gwen Aviles | November 19, 2018

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The Forgotten Fairy Tale Genius of Édouard Laboulaye

By Jack Zipes and Édouard Laboulaye | November 19, 2018

How Saul Bellow Reckoned with Money and Fame

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<em>My Brilliant Friend</em> is the Kind of TV We Need Right Now: Slow

My Brilliant Friend is the Kind of TV We Need Right Now: Slow

The HBO Adaptation of Elena Ferrante is a Refreshing Change

By Emily Temple | November 12, 2018

Co-Parenting with Lord Byron, As Weird As It Sounds

Co-Parenting with Lord Byron, As Weird As It Sounds

Miranda Seymour the Precociousness of the Poet's Daughter

By Miranda Seymour | November 12, 2018

Virginia and Leonard Woolf Remember Their War Dead

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On One of Hogarth Press' Earliest Printings

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What Folk Music Misses About Actual Folks

What Folk Music Misses About Actual Folks

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Simone de Beauvoir: "How Many Bland and Dull Escapist Novels There Are!"

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The Moment Sylvia Plath Found Her Genius

The Moment Sylvia Plath Found Her Genius

Craig Morgan Teicher on the Rise of a Great Poet

By Craig Morgan Teicher | November 8, 2018

How Much Editing Was Done to Emily Dickinson's Poems After She Died?

How Much Editing Was Done to Emily Dickinson's Poems After She Died?

The Poet's Earliest Advocates Might Have Been Guilty of Overreach

By Julie Dobrow | November 8, 2018

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