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High Lonesome: A Dispatch from the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering

High Lonesome: A Dispatch from the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering

Does the History of Western Poetry Begin with Sheep?

By Michael Ursell | February 13, 2019

On Kate Bush's Radical Interpretation of <em>Wuthering Heights</em>

On Kate Bush's Radical Interpretation of Wuthering Heights

Or, How to Teach English with a Music Video

By Brendan Mathews | February 13, 2019

The Death of a Symbol: How Western Writers Exploit the Tiger

The Death of a Symbol: How Western Writers Exploit the Tiger

A Brief History of Gross Fascination

By Aditi Natasha Kini | February 11, 2019

Sense <em>or</em> Sensibility... What if Jane Austen Had to Choose?

Sense or Sensibility... What if Jane Austen Had to Choose?

Devoney Looser Considers the Mind vs. the Heart

By Devoney Looser | February 11, 2019

Marriage Isn't the Only Plot for Love

Marriage Isn't the Only Plot for Love

Reading Briallen Hopper and Rethinking Love

By Kristen Martin | February 11, 2019

What Barry Jenkins Missed in His Adaptation of <em>If Beale Street Could Talk</em>

What Barry Jenkins Missed in His Adaptation of If Beale Street Could Talk

Gabrielle Bellot Thinks James Baldwin Deserves Better

By Gabrielle Bellot | February 8, 2019

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On the Anxiety and Vanity of Marcel Proust, Debut Novelist

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Empathy Exams: On Fictionalizing Extremists

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One Writer’s Activism is Another Writer’s Terrorism

By Tobias Carroll | February 1, 2019

On Danticat, Camus, and the Art of Exile

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Gabrielle Bellot Reminds Us That Immigrant Art is American Art

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When Even the Greatest of Writers Grapples with Self-Doubt

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How Virginia Woolf Taught Me to Mourn

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Two Writers Grieving for a Parent, a Century Apart

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Lessons From a Newly-Discovered Sylvia Plath Story

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It Would Be Easy to Write It Off—But We Shouldn't.

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On the Overlooked Eroticism of Mary Oliver

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