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The Many Ways in Which We Are Wrong About Jane Austen

The Many Ways in Which We Are Wrong About Jane Austen

Lies, Damn Lies, and Literary Scholarship

By Helena Kelly | May 3, 2017

The Forgotten History of American Working-Class Literature

The Forgotten History of American Working-Class Literature

And the Recent Movement to Restore its Place in the Canon

By Amanda Arnold | May 1, 2017

On Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Vladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevich

On Pushkin, Tolstoy, and Vladislav Felitsianovich Khodasevich

Russian Literature Week is Set to Take Over NYC

By Literary Hub | May 1, 2017

How Hollywood Segregates Eternity

How Hollywood Segregates Eternity

Harmony Holiday on the Misrepresented Layers of the Black Experience in the West

By Harmony Holiday | April 26, 2017

F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Psychic Cost of Selling Out

F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Psychic Cost of Selling Out

$55,000 for a Magazine Feature? It's Hard to Blame Him

By Anne Margaret Daniel | April 25, 2017

Murakami vs. Bolaño: Competing Visions of the Global Novel

Murakami vs. Bolaño: Competing Visions of the Global Novel

What Should International Fiction Accomplish?

By Adam Kirsch | April 24, 2017

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A Political Conversion on the Way to a Novel

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Louise Glück on Realism and Fantasy

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"The fantastic exists as hypothesis and dream."

By Louise Gluck | April 18, 2017

Some of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Best Characters Were Dead People

Some of Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Best Characters Were Dead People

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By Gabrielle Bellot | April 17, 2017

Race is the Original American Fiction

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On Reuniting with The Descendants of Thomas Jefferson's Slaves

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In Defense of Worldbuilding

In Defense of Worldbuilding

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The Uncanny Magic of Joy Williams, in a Single Paragraph

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How a Master of the Short Story Plays Cat and Mouse with the Reader

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Is Your Name Your Destiny?

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On the Intrinsic Power of What People Call (and Miscall) You

By Catherine Buni | April 3, 2017

I Love <em>The Great Gatsby</em>, Even if it Doesn't Love Me Back

I Love The Great Gatsby, Even if it Doesn't Love Me Back

On Difficult Characters and the Unbearable Whiteness of Classic Literature

By Stephanie Powell Watts | April 3, 2017

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