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On the Iconic Iraqi Writer Who Modernized Poetic Forms

On the Iconic Iraqi Writer Who Modernized Poetic Forms

Fadhil al-Azzawi, a Countercultural Literary Force

By Farouk Yousif | September 12, 2019

Why Does Sickness Feel So Isolating When Everyone is Sick?

Why Does Sickness Feel So Isolating When Everyone is Sick?

Natalie Adler on Anne Boyer's The Undying

By Natalie Adler | September 11, 2019

Lucy Ellmann, a Great American Novelist Hiding in Plain Sight

Lucy Ellmann, a Great American Novelist Hiding in Plain Sight

Lori Feathers in Conversation with the Author of Ducks, Newburyport

By Lori Feathers | September 9, 2019

The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Defies Easy Genre Categorization

The Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Defies Easy Genre Categorization

Andrew Ervin on Gormenghast and The Big Book of Fantasy

By Andrew Ervin | September 9, 2019

Just Because Walt Whitman Self-Published, Doesn't Mean You Should, Too

Just Because Walt Whitman Self-Published, Doesn't Mean You Should, Too

On Self-Publishing, Vanity, and the Need of a Good Editor

By Nick Ripatrazone | September 9, 2019

Mourning Paule Marshall, the Foremother Who Didn't Always Love Me Back

Mourning Paule Marshall, the Foremother Who Didn't Always Love Me Back

Rosamond S. King on the Contradictions of Literary Gratitude

By Rosamond S. King | September 9, 2019

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On Agatha Christie and the Dawn of a Post-Capitalist Era

By Slavoj Žižek | September 9, 2019

The Writer Who Rejected the Black Literary Bourgeoisie

By Ishmael Reed | September 6, 2019

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Feats of Shame and Openness

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Benjamin Markovits on the Value of Making Contact

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Did the Russian <em>Wizard of Oz</em> Subvert Soviet Propaganda?

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Charles Johnson Remembers the Great Paule Marshall

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The Many Literary Landscapes of Tokyo

The Many Literary Landscapes of Tokyo

From the City of Samurai to the Gardens of Nobility

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Struggling to Write Outside a Colonial Framework

Struggling to Write Outside a Colonial Framework

Meredith Talusan on the Complexity of Telling
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The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of <em>Goodnight Moon</em>

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if something ate him."">"Could be improved if something replied. Would be perfect
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