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On Moderata Fonte's Feminist Reimagining of 16th-Century Venice

On Moderata Fonte's Feminist Reimagining of 16th-Century Venice

Female Friendships and Single Women in The Merits of Women

By Virginia Cox | March 27, 2018

Mukoma Wa Ngugi: What <em>Decolonizing the Mind</em> Means Today

Mukoma Wa Ngugi: What Decolonizing the Mind Means Today

"The Work of Linguistic Decolonization Cannot Be Done By Writers Alone"

By Mukoma Wa Ngugi | March 23, 2018

Lost in Berlin, and in the Wordless Writing of Mirtha Dermisache

Lost in Berlin, and in the Wordless Writing of Mirtha Dermisache

J. Mae Barizo on the Space Between the Known and Unknown

By J. Mae Barizo | March 23, 2018

Stop Looking for One War Story to Make Sense of All Wars

Stop Looking for One War Story to Make Sense of All Wars

Matt Young on the Romanticized Image of the Warrior Poet

By Matt Young | March 22, 2018

Why Do We Turn to Stories in the Midst of a Disaster?

Why Do We Turn to Stories in the Midst of a Disaster?

On Narrative and Trauma in Mexico City

By Madeleine Wattenbarger | March 21, 2018

Four Theories Toward the Timeless Brilliance of <em>Infinite Jest</em>

Four Theories Toward the Timeless Brilliance of Infinite Jest

Tom Bissell on the Novel of Its Generation

By Tom Bissell | March 21, 2018

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Is It Worth 1,000 Words? Mark Sarvas on Writing Art in Fiction

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A Brief Survey of Paintings in Literature

By Mark Sarvas | March 14, 2018

Why Every Progressive Should Read <em>The Good Soldier Švejk</em>

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Paul Goldberg on How to Stay Sane in a World Besieged by Idiocy

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Curtis White: There's No Such Thing as Postmodernism

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The Tragedies of Aeschylus Are Truly Timeless

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Hannah Arendt on the Time She Met W.H. Auden

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Happy Birthday to the poet who thought “poetry makes nothing happen”

By Hannah Arendt | February 21, 2018

Can We Ever Escape History? On Walter Kempowski's Life's Work

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An Antidote to the Traumatic Experiences of a Wartime Childhood

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How Do You Write One of Humanity's Most Intimate Moments?

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