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

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

Toward a Unified Literary Theory of the Kiss

By Brian Turner | February 14, 2018

How Medieval Storytellers Shape Our Understanding of Romance

How Medieval Storytellers Shape Our Understanding of Romance

Matters of the Heart, from Arthurian Legend to Tristan and Isolde

By Marilyn Yalom | February 14, 2018

On the Very Contemporary Art of Flash Fiction

On the Very Contemporary Art of Flash Fiction

"To Be Brief Takes Time"

By John Dufresne | February 13, 2018

Every Publication is a Kind of Death

Every Publication is a Kind of Death

Patrick Nathan on the Beautiful Morbidity of Language

By Patrick Nathan | February 12, 2018

The Literature of Ezili, Vodou Spirit Force of Queer Black Womanhood

The Literature of Ezili, Vodou Spirit Force of Queer Black Womanhood

Why Do Artists Return Again and Again to Ezili?

By Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley | February 9, 2018

Dystopia For Sale: How a Commercialized Genre Lost its Teeth

Dystopia For Sale: How a Commercialized Genre Lost its Teeth

Overdosing on Stories of Futility Might Be Bad for Us

By Brady Gerber | February 8, 2018

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<em>Ulysses</em>: Good or Bad?

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Our Obsession with Lost Books, And How They Often Disappoint

Our Obsession with Lost Books, And How They Often Disappoint

Tim Wirkus on the Tension Between What is Anticipated and What is Delivered

By Tim Wirkus | January 31, 2018

The Hunter and His Gun: An American Myth That Just Won't Die

The Hunter and His Gun: An American Myth That Just Won't Die

How Daniel Boone and Last of the Mohicans Built a Colonialist Origin Story

By Roxanne Oritz-Dunbar | January 26, 2018

Barbara Comyns, Outsider Artist

Barbara Comyns, Outsider Artist

Without a Formal Education, She Produced Gothic Masterworks

By Nathan Scott McNamara | January 24, 2018

Same As It Ever Was: <em>Orientalism</em> Forty Years Later

Same As It Ever Was: Orientalism Forty Years Later

On Edward Said, Othering, and the Depictions of Arabs in America

By Philip Metres | January 23, 2018

Bad Faith Backlash: Arguing Online With Everyone and No One

Bad Faith Backlash: Arguing Online With Everyone and No One

The Last Jedi, and the Internet of Takes">On "Cat Person," The Last Jedi, and the Internet of Takes

By M. C. Mah | January 22, 2018

In California, Visions of Defiance and Grace

In California, Visions of Defiance and Grace

Finding Political Inspiration in the Unlikeliest of Places: The Opera

By Veronica Esposito | January 22, 2018

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