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Long Tables, Open Bottles, and Smoke: Hanging Out with Derek Walcott

Long Tables, Open Bottles, and Smoke: Hanging Out with Derek Walcott

Sven Birkerts on Literary Life in 1980s Boston, with a Trio of Great Poets

By Sven Birkerts | November 22, 2017

<em>Call Me By Your Name</em> is an Object Lesson in Adapting Interiority

Call Me By Your Name is an Object Lesson in Adapting Interiority

You must see this movie immediately

By Emily Temple | November 20, 2017

We Still Need the Morality Lessons of Philip Pullman

We Still Need the Morality Lessons of Philip Pullman

A Book for Young Readers Can Help Adults Learn How to Live

By Eric Thurm | November 20, 2017

Charles Bukowski Wrote So Fast His Publisher Couldn’t Keep Up

Charles Bukowski Wrote So Fast His Publisher Couldn’t Keep Up

On Trying to Get a Poet to Make Copies of His Poems

By Abel Debritto | November 17, 2017

Reclaiming a Beloved Writer from the Brink of Disappearance

Reclaiming a Beloved Writer from the Brink of Disappearance

There's Value in Telling Someone: You Are Not Vanished Here

By Beth Kephart | November 16, 2017

What George Orwell Wrote About the Dangers of Nationalism

What George Orwell Wrote About the Dangers of Nationalism

On Facts, Fallacies, and Power

By Kristian Williams | November 16, 2017

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  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

You Can Never Go Back: On Loving Children's Books as an Adult

By Anya Jaremko-Greenwold | November 14, 2017

Latin America’s Answer to Karl Ove Knausgaard

By Ilan Stavans | November 14, 2017

What We Can Learn From Multiple Translations of the Same Poem

By Martha Collins | November 13, 2017

Literature Without Writing: A Survey of Texts That Aren't Texts

Literature Without Writing: A Survey of Texts That Aren't Texts

Ross Simonini on Speech, Language, and the Foundations of Storytelling

By Ross Simonini | November 13, 2017

When an Umbrella is More Than Just an Umbrella

When an Umbrella is More Than Just an Umbrella

The Potent Symbolism of Brollies, from Mary Poppins to Harry Potter

By Marion Rankine | November 10, 2017

From Midcentury Confessional Poetry to Reality TV

From Midcentury Confessional Poetry to Reality TV

How Did "Confession" Become a Dirty Word?

By Christopher Grobe | November 9, 2017

Read Anne Sexton's Response to Her Worst-Ever Review

Read Anne Sexton's Response to Her Worst-Ever Review

Esquire is my enemy as you know."">"Dickey at Esquire is my enemy as you know."

By Emily Temple | November 9, 2017

All the Letters I'll Never Send

All the Letters I'll Never Send

What Can be Learned From an Archive of Longing?

By Clare Sestanovich | November 9, 2017

Seeing the Hopeful Side of  Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Seeing the Hopeful Side of Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Megan Hunter Wonders What It Is We Crave About the End of the World

By Megan Hunter | November 8, 2017

How the KKK Shaped Modern Comic Book Superheroes

How the KKK Shaped Modern Comic Book Superheroes

Masked Men Who Take the Law into Their Own Hands

By Chris Gavaler | November 3, 2017

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