The Lesser-Known Novel of the 1950s That Presaged Queer Liberation

The Lesser-Known Novel of the 1950s That Presaged Queer Liberation

Cat Sebastian on the Unexpected Power of Mary Renault’s The Charioteer

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Boundaries Dissolve: Joanna Biggs on Reading Ferrante With Other Women

Boundaries Dissolve: Joanna Biggs on Reading Ferrante With Other Women

“Things fall apart, but the reader never loses hope.”

By Joanna Biggs | June 1, 2023

How to Brainwash Yourself: Grace Lavery on the Devices of Trans Identity in Literature

How to Brainwash Yourself: Grace Lavery on the Devices of Trans Identity in Literature

“George Eliot was, unquestionably, a trans author.”

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Part of Our World: On the Mermaids of Walt Disney, Hans Christian Andersen, and W.B. Yeats

Part of Our World: On the Mermaids of Walt Disney, Hans Christian Andersen, and W.B. Yeats

Gabrielle Bellot: “The mermaid is the Other; she is also us.”

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AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of May

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Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah on Writing a Violent Story with Love

Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah on Writing a Violent Story with Love

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Tool or Terror? Looking to Literature to Better Understand Artificial Intelligence

Tool or Terror? Looking to Literature to Better Understand Artificial Intelligence

Gabrielle Bellot Reads Allegra Hyde, Mark O’Connell, and More

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In Praise of Sci-Fi Legend Connie Willis’s Cinematic Universe

In Praise of Sci-Fi Legend Connie Willis’s Cinematic Universe

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Welcome to Season 4 of <em>The Cosmic Library</em>

Welcome to Season 4 of The Cosmic Library

This Season, Meet Journey to the West’s Monkey King

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On Albert Camus: <em>The Stranger, The Plague</em>, and the Existentialists

On Albert Camus: The Stranger, The Plague, and the Existentialists

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Jessica Anne and Long Day Press on Making <em>Sex with My Family</em>

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