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The Pleasures of a Pessimistic Literary Escape: Jessie Gaynor on Edith Wharton’s <em>The Glimpses of the Moon</em>

The Pleasures of a Pessimistic Literary Escape: Jessie Gaynor on Edith Wharton’s The Glimpses of the Moon

"Even when writing an escapist romance, Wharton is inescapably herself"

By Jessie Gaynor | October 11, 2023

Adam Thirlwell on Witold Gombrowicz's <em> The Possessed</em>

Adam Thirlwell on Witold Gombrowicz's The Possessed

Revisiting a Polish Modernist Classic

By Adam Thirlwell | October 11, 2023

How Horror Helps Us Confront and Understand Grief and Loss

How Horror Helps Us Confront and Understand Grief and Loss

Alexandra Dos Santos on Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House

By Alexandra Dos Santos | October 11, 2023

Domestic Yet Universal: Rumaan Alam on Helen Garner's <em>The Children's Bach</em>

Domestic Yet Universal: Rumaan Alam on Helen Garner's The Children's Bach

"This is a story about how life happens to all of us."

By Rumaan Alam | October 10, 2023

Writing as Transformation: Who Paul Yoon Needed to Become to Finish His Book

Writing as Transformation: Who Paul Yoon Needed to Become to Finish His Book

Laura van den Berg Speaks with the Author of The Hive and the Honey

By Laura van den Berg | October 10, 2023

No One Ever Said It: On the Long History of

No One Ever Said It: On the Long History of "Ye Olde" in English

Hana Videen on Chaucer, Hamlet, and the Evolution of Middle and Old English

By Hana Videen | October 10, 2023

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Why the Russian Protest Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky Still Matter Today

By Philip Metres | October 10, 2023

Benjamín Labatut Will Not Be Profiled

By Adam Dalva | October 9, 2023

Ann Patchett on Oscar Hijuelos' Lush, Elegiac Novel Full of Music and Sex

By Ann Patchett | October 9, 2023

Derangement and Estrangement: On Poetic Turbulence in Translation

Derangement and Estrangement: On Poetic Turbulence in Translation

Joyelle McSweeney Considers Hussein Barghouthi's The Blue Light and Kim Hyesoon's Phantom Pain Wings

By Joyelle McSweeney | October 9, 2023

Robots Are People, Too: On the Ways Writers Use Non-Human Characters to Tell Human Stories

Robots Are People, Too: On the Ways Writers Use Non-Human Characters to Tell Human Stories

Allegories, Companions, Advisor, Otherworldly, and Outsiders

By Dan Hope | October 6, 2023

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring New Titles by Benjamín Labatut, Safiya Sinclair, Lydia Davis, Melissa Broder, and More

By Book Marks | October 6, 2023

Understanding Zora Neale Hurston's Loneliness

Understanding Zora Neale Hurston's Loneliness

Richard Deming on Hurston's 1942 autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road

By Richard Deming | October 5, 2023

Alex Reisner on Covering Books3 and Fighting Piracy

Alex Reisner on Covering Books3 and Fighting Piracy

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 5, 2023

C Pam Zhang on Food, Wealth, and Pressure

C Pam Zhang on Food, Wealth, and Pressure

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | October 5, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"A hilarious revolt against the aggressive godlessness, dehumanization and fear plaguing our time."

By Book Marks | October 5, 2023

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