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On Soseki's Bitingly Critical Novel, <em>I Am a Cat</em>

On Soseki's Bitingly Critical Novel, I Am a Cat

A Comic Evocation of the Author's Deep Pessimism about His Own Humanity

By John Nathan | May 16, 2018

George Saunders on the Emotional Realism of Bobbie Ann Mason

George Saunders on the Emotional Realism of Bobbie Ann Mason

Her Fiction is a Scale Model Where People Wander Beautiful, Hostile Dreamscapes

By George Saunders | May 15, 2018

Paul Bowles: 'Here's My Message. Everything Gets Worse'

Paul Bowles: 'Here's My Message. Everything Gets Worse'

Paul Theroux on the Existentialism of The Sheltering Sky

By Paul Theroux | May 11, 2018

Reading <em>The Golden Notebook</em> During a Summer of Too Many Weddings

Reading The Golden Notebook During a Summer of Too Many Weddings

On Doris Lessing's Exploration of the "Free Woman"

By Lara Feigel | May 10, 2018

Why Do Horror Stories Resonate So Deeply Right Now?

Why Do Horror Stories Resonate So Deeply Right Now?

From Get Out to The Changeling, These Are Creepy (Fictional) Times

By Tobias Carroll | May 10, 2018

What Snow White and the Evil Queen Taught Me About Desire

What Snow White and the Evil Queen Taught Me About Desire

"Fairy Tales Don’t Tell Children to Stop Wanting—Only to Be Careful"

By Julia Fine | May 8, 2018

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The Burden of a Thousand Possible Lives: On Motherhood and Conflicting Desires

By Jennifer Schaffer | May 2, 2018

On Marjane Satrapi’s Early #MeToo Novel

On Marjane Satrapi’s Early #MeToo Novel

How Embroideries Reveals the Power of Women's Stories

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 30, 2018

Our Imaginations Need to Dwell <em>Where the Wild Things Are</em>

Our Imaginations Need to Dwell Where the Wild Things Are

How Children's Literature Leads Us to the Uncanny

By Liam Heneghan | April 30, 2018

Van Morrison, Unlikeliest of Literary Muses

Van Morrison, Unlikeliest of Literary Muses

On the Outsize Influence of Astral Weeks

By Tobias Carroll | April 26, 2018

Reading Rilke in Paris's Jardin des Plantes

Reading Rilke in Paris's Jardin des Plantes

Henri Cole on Loneliness, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Brokeback Mountain

By Henri Cole | April 26, 2018

On the Ways We Read (and Are Written To)

On the Ways We Read (and Are Written To)

Damon Young on the Rarity and Fragility of Words on a Page

By Damon Young | April 26, 2018

Margaret Atwood on How She Came to Write <em>The Handmaid's Tale</em>

Margaret Atwood on How She Came to Write The Handmaid's Tale

The Origin Story of an Iconic Novel

By Margaret Atwood | April 25, 2018

When Fiction Pulls Back the Curtain on American Conservatism

When Fiction Pulls Back the Curtain on American Conservatism

Two Novels That Interrogate the Principle of the Few Over the Many

By Colette Shade | April 24, 2018

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