This Writer: On Social Work and Fiction

This Writer: On Social Work and Fiction

"The work has to leave me, and I have to be able to let it go"

By Rosalie Knecht | March 15, 2016

Tracey Chevalier: Past President of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Club

Tracey Chevalier: Past President of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Club

On Little House on the Prairie and mothers who are not Ma

By Tracy Chevalier | March 14, 2016

Contemplating the Infinite with Annie Dillard

Contemplating the Infinite with Annie Dillard

"One of the most sensitive, listening intelligences ever to breathe American air"

By John Freeman | March 10, 2016

Hidden Stories and Historical Half-truths: Lies Your Ancestors Told You

Hidden Stories and Historical Half-truths: Lies Your Ancestors Told You

On history, heritage, and whitewashing

By Anita Huslin | March 7, 2016

The Beautiful, Proto-Feminist Snark of Jane Austen’s Juvenilia

The Beautiful, Proto-Feminist Snark of Jane Austen’s Juvenilia

74,000 words of raucous, handwritten amorality

By Devoney Looser | March 4, 2016

102 Indispensible Works of Literary Criticism

102 Indispensible Works of Literary Criticism

A Highly Subjective and Idiosyncratic List Created Upon Moving House

By Jonathan Russell Clark | March 4, 2016

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Harper Lee and the Myth of a Post-Racial America

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When Art Cannot Console Us in Death

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A. O. Scott Asks Himself: What is Criticism?

A. O. Scott Asks Himself: What is Criticism?

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On Finding Yourself in the Work of Jhumpa Lahiri

On Finding Yourself in the Work of Jhumpa Lahiri

Nandini Balial on Language, Homeland, and Family

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David Denby on Teenage Reading Habits, and the Page vs. the Screen

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