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Phantom Menace: Rereading “Turn of the Screw” Every Fall

Phantom Menace: Rereading “Turn of the Screw” Every Fall

Jason Diamond on Making Henry James an Annual Tradition

By Jason Diamond | October 22, 2015

Jane Smiley:

Jane Smiley: "At the End of This Trilogy, I Wept."

On Killing Characters and Exploring Fictional Worlds

By Jane Smiley | October 20, 2015

The Brutal Murder of Mary Grace, Peacock

The Brutal Murder of Mary Grace, Peacock

Love and Death on Flannery’s Farm

By Margaret Eby | October 20, 2015

Plays vs. Novels (You'll Never Guess What Happens Next)

Plays vs. Novels (You'll Never Guess What Happens Next)

In Which a Playwright Turned Novelist Tries to Decide

By Kirk Lynn | October 19, 2015

In Praise of Melville’s Whale Chapters

In Praise of Melville’s Whale Chapters

Happy Pub Birthday, Moby-Dick, You are the Best

By Joel Cuthbertson | October 16, 2015

Dear Lizzie: The Second Lover to the Second Communist

Dear Lizzie: The Second Lover to the Second Communist

How the correspondence of Marx and Engels turned into a novel

By Gavin McCrea | October 15, 2015

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<em>Don Quixote</em>: Sloppy, Inconsistent, Baffling, Perfect

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By Ilan Stavans | October 7, 2015

When Pen Names Become People

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Sloane Crosley on Self-Diagnosing Novel Dysmorphia

Sloane Crosley on Self-Diagnosing Novel Dysmorphia

Because in the Writer's Mind, Size Sometimes Matters

By Sloane Crosley | October 1, 2015

The Literary Heirs of the Great Carraway

The Literary Heirs of the Great Carraway

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