The Truth of Ray Bradbury's Prophetic Vision

The Truth of Ray Bradbury's Prophetic Vision

Michael Moorcock: Why Fahrenheit 451 Endures

By Michael Moorcock | May 18, 2018

The Power of W. G. Sebald's Small Silences

The Power of W. G. Sebald's Small Silences

Even His Punctuation Gestured Toward the Trauma of History

By Nathan Goldman | May 18, 2018

Rereading <em>Little Women</em> in its 150th Anniversary Year

Rereading Little Women in its 150th Anniversary Year

Could it Mean as Much to Me in My Thirties as it Had in Adolescence?

By Rebecca Foster | May 16, 2018

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

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

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Reading Motherhood and And Now We Have Everything

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On Marjane Satrapi’s Early #MeToo Novel

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How Embroideries Reveals the Power of Women's Stories

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

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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

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Reading Rilke in Paris's Jardin des Plantes

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

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