Noir is the Perfect Genre for Telling a Millennial Story

Noir is the Perfect Genre for Telling a Millennial Story

On Search Party, Raymond Chandler, and Mysteries with No Resolutions

By Emily Harnett | February 6, 2017

George Washington: 'Citizens By Birth Or Choice' Will Make America Great

George Washington: 'Citizens By Birth Or Choice' Will Make America Great

Historian John Avlon on the First President's Farewell Address

By Charles Arrowsmith | February 6, 2017

What Was Chick Lit? A Brief History From the Inside

What Was Chick Lit? A Brief History From the Inside

Lucinda Rosenfeld Looks Back at a Genre That Deserved Better

By Lucinda Rosenfeld | February 3, 2017

Why We Need More Trans Protagonists for Kids

Why We Need More Trans Protagonists for Kids

For Trans Youth, Representation Can be Critical to Survival

By Britni de la Cretaz | February 2, 2017

Reclaiming <em>Of Mice and Men</em> from Parody

Reclaiming Of Mice and Men from Parody

I will name him George, and I will hug him and pet him and squeeze him

By Emily Temple | February 2, 2017

Novelist Nadifa Mohamed on the Impact of Trump's Muslim Ban

Novelist Nadifa Mohamed on the Impact of Trump's Muslim Ban

Life in an Ever-Growing Climate of Fear, Mistrust, and Uncertainty

By John Freeman | January 31, 2017

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Roxane Gay on Empathy, Race, and the Work of Alice Childress

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In Praise of a Mid-Century Classic

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What's Happening in America? Susan Sontag Sought to Find Out in 1966

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30 Years Later, Scorsese Makes His <em>Silence</em>

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On Shūsaku Endō’s Eponymous Source Novel

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The Evolution of Sex Writing

The Evolution of Sex Writing

On Future Sex and the History of the Sexual Ethnography

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There Have Always Been Genre Wars

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On the Battles Around Yiddish Pulp Fiction

By Ezra Glinter | January 5, 2017

The Many Bad Moms of Charles Dickens

The Many Bad Moms of Charles Dickens

Dickens Believed Women Should Be of Selfless Service to their Family & Country

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