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Franz Kafka, the Ultimate Self-Doubting Writer

Franz Kafka, the Ultimate Self-Doubting Writer

On the Emotional Resonance of Kafka's Diaries

By John Sherman | June 2, 2017

The Queer Literary Origins of Wonder Woman

The Queer Literary Origins of Wonder Woman

From Homer and Sappho to Charlotte Perkins Gilman

By Gabrielle Bellot | June 1, 2017

At a Sword Fight with a Modern-Day Swashbuckler (in a Harlem Basement)

At a Sword Fight with a Modern-Day Swashbuckler (in a Harlem Basement)

Dwyer Murphy Goes Underground to Get the Story of Lawrence Ellsworth

By Dwyer Murphy | June 1, 2017

Why Are We So Afraid of Female Desire?

Why Are We So Afraid of Female Desire?

On Sex and Moral Panic, from the Victorians to the Hays Code

By Carol Dyhouse | June 1, 2017

Chris Kraus on Why You Should Read Eileen Myles's First Novel

Chris Kraus on Why You Should Read Eileen Myles's First Novel

Cool for You Reissued Just In Time

By Chris Kraus | May 31, 2017

I Found My Family in <em>Jesus' Son</em>

I Found My Family in Jesus' Son

James Boice on One of the Most Influential Books of the Latest 50 Years

By James Boice | May 31, 2017

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On the Autofiction of Conrad Aiken, Unsung American Modernist

By Conor Higgins | May 25, 2017

Virginia Woolf: There Are Way Too Many Personal Essays Out There

By Lorraine Berry | May 24, 2017

In a 12th-Century Iranian Poem, a Vision of Solidarity We Need Today

By Theodore McCombs | May 24, 2017

We Need the Lives of Others Now More Than Ever

We Need the Lives of Others Now More Than Ever

On the Expansive Reading and Insights of Tony Judt

By Veronica Esposito | May 23, 2017

The Wisdom of Sendak: Children Are Wild, Honest, Immoral Beings

The Wisdom of Sendak: Children Are Wild, Honest, Immoral Beings

On the Weird Kingdoms and Kinship of Maurice Sendak and Ralph Eugene Meatyard

By Buzz Poole | May 22, 2017

Americans in Search of Utopia

Americans in Search of Utopia

19th-Century Experiments in Perfection

By Betsy Hartmann | May 22, 2017

Why We <em>Do</em> Need Another Adaptation of <em>Little Women</em>

Why We Do Need Another Adaptation of Little Women

At Heart, Retelling is an Act of Love

By Anne Boyd Rioux | May 19, 2017

Queering the

Queering the "I": On First-Person LGBTQ Narratives

Garth Greenwell, Martin Pousson, and Others Talk Vulnerability and Shame

By Ilana Masad | May 19, 2017

Reading Joan Didion in the Midst of Depression

Reading Joan Didion in the Midst of Depression

Philipa Snow Reads Play It As It Lays and Finds the Right Kind of Feeling

By Philippa Snow | May 18, 2017

In Praise of Juan Rulfo: Carmen Boullosa, Yuri Herrera, and More...

In Praise of Juan Rulfo: Carmen Boullosa, Yuri Herrera, and More...

On the Centenary of a Great Mexican Writer

By Literary Hub | May 17, 2017

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