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On the Dark(er) Side of the Perpetually Dark Edward Gorey

On the Dark(er) Side of the Perpetually Dark Edward Gorey

From Wittgenstein to The Golden Girls, a Man of Varied Interests

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 3, 2017

What <em>I'd Die for You</em> Tells Us About Fitzgerald's Troubled Final Years

What I'd Die for You Tells Us About Fitzgerald's Troubled Final Years

And How he Turned Personal Tragedy into His Best Work

By Cody Delistraty | May 3, 2017

The Many Ways in Which We Are Wrong About Jane Austen

The Many Ways in Which We Are Wrong About Jane Austen

Lies, Damn Lies, and Literary Scholarship

By Helena Kelly | May 3, 2017

The Forgotten History of American Working-Class Literature

The Forgotten History of American Working-Class Literature

And the Recent Movement to Restore its Place in the Canon

By Amanda Arnold | May 1, 2017

On Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Vladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevich

On Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Vladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevich

Russian Literature Week is Set to Take Over NYC

By Literary Hub | May 1, 2017

How Hollywood Segregates Eternity

How Hollywood Segregates Eternity

Harmony Holiday on the Misrepresented Layers of the Black Experience in the West

By Harmony Holiday | April 26, 2017

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F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Psychic Cost of Selling Out

By Anne Margaret Daniel | April 25, 2017

Murakami vs. Bolaño: Competing Visions of the Global Novel

By Adam Kirsch | April 24, 2017

How I Learned to Love the Weird, From Octavia Butler to Kelly Link

By Brian Francis Slattery | April 21, 2017

Nihilism or Wonder? On the Evolution of the Alien Story

Nihilism or Wonder? On the Evolution of the Alien Story

Investigating Extraterrestrial Metaphors for Communism, Religion, Love & Art

By Emily Harnett | April 19, 2017

A Political Conversion on the Way to a Novel

A Political Conversion on the Way to a Novel

Margot Singer on Rediscovering Post-9/11 Complexity

By Margot Singer | April 18, 2017

Louise Glück on Realism and Fantasy

Louise Glück on Realism and Fantasy

"The fantastic exists as hypothesis and dream."

By Louise Gluck | April 18, 2017

Some of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Best Characters Were Dead People

Some of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Best Characters Were Dead People

On Love, Death, and Life in the Work of a Master

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 17, 2017

Race is the Original American Fiction

Race is the Original American Fiction

On Reuniting with The Descendants of Thomas Jefferson's Slaves

By Andrew Mitchell Davenport | April 13, 2017

In Defense of Worldbuilding

In Defense of Worldbuilding

Or, Against Being Against Writing Tools

By Emily Temple | April 10, 2017

The Uncanny Magic of Joy Williams, in a Single Paragraph

The Uncanny Magic of Joy Williams, in a Single Paragraph

How a Master of the Short Story Plays Cat and Mouse with the Reader

By Vincent Scarpa | April 7, 2017

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