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How to Review a Novel

How to Review a Novel

London Review of Books Editor Mary-Kay Wilmers
on the Language of Criticism

By Mary-Kay Wilmers | August 27, 2019

In Praise of the High School English Teacher

In Praise of the High School English Teacher

Introducing a New Column by Nick Ripatrazone

By Nick Ripatrazone | August 27, 2019

Kurt Vonnegut Really, Really Hated Guns

Kurt Vonnegut Really, Really Hated Guns

“I wouldn’t have one of the motherfuckers in my house for anything.”

By Chuck Augello | August 26, 2019

Writing the Impossible Grief of Very Young Widowhood

Writing the Impossible Grief of Very Young Widowhood

Kelsey Ronan on Finding the Right Words

By Kelsey Ronan | August 26, 2019

Jenny Zhang on Reading <em>Little Women</em> and Wanting to Be Like Jo March

Jenny Zhang on Reading Little Women and Wanting to Be Like Jo March

Looking to Louisa May Alcott's Heroine for Inspiration

By Jenny Zhang | August 23, 2019

Dorothy Parker on the Art of Her Old Pal James Thurber

Dorothy Parker on the Art of Her Old Pal James Thurber

"A Thurber must be seen to be believed—there is no use trying to tell the plot of it."

By Dorothy Parker | August 22, 2019

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Reading David Remnick 25 Years After the Fall of the Soviet Union

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Lara Vapnyar on the Book That Made Her Weep For Hours

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Jay Parini on the Art of Inventing Real Life

By Jay Parini | August 21, 2019

Hans Christian Andersen, Original Literary Softboi

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Bookish Ambition! Awkward Gentleness! Goth Sexiness! He Had It All

By Boze Herrington | August 21, 2019

Whatever Your Classroom, Please Teach More Living Poets

Whatever Your Classroom, Please Teach More Living Poets

Nick Ripatrazone on the Benefits of Studying
“breathing, human artists.”

By Nick Ripatrazone | August 20, 2019

The Ways in Which Writing May or May Not Resemble Sex

The Ways in Which Writing May or May Not Resemble Sex

Nicola Waldron Wonders if Writing Can Be a Kink

By Nicola Waldron | August 20, 2019

Amitav Ghosh and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni on Indian Epics in Modern Novels

Amitav Ghosh and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni on Indian Epics in Modern Novels

The Authors of Gun Island and The Forest of Enchantments in Conversation

By Literary Hub | August 20, 2019

Lessons From Nabokov: Finding Freedom in a Foreign Language

Lessons From Nabokov: Finding Freedom in a Foreign Language

Rajia Hassib on Mastering a Third Language

By Rajia Hassib | August 19, 2019

Dear Yusef Komunyakaa: <br>A Letter From Gregory Pardlo

Dear Yusef Komunyakaa:
A Letter From Gregory Pardlo

On Neon Vernacular and the Long Half-Life of Double Consciousness

By Gregory Pardlo | August 19, 2019

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