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How to Write a Pain Book

How to Write a Pain Book

For Lisa Levy Illness Is Easy, Pain Is Hard

By Lisa Levy | April 28, 2022

The Real-Life Heroines of an Outrageous Era: A Gilded Age Reading List

The Real-Life Heroines of an Outrageous Era: A Gilded Age Reading List

Maya Rodale on Boundary-Breaking Women from Nellie Bly to Ida B. Wells

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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

"She is a poet who elevates the novel, on a linear level, to something higher"

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Translating the Magical Imperfection of Oral Tradition to the Page

Translating the Magical Imperfection of Oral Tradition to the Page

Vaishnavi Patel on Finding Inspiration from the Ramayana

By Vaishnavi Patel | April 28, 2022

The Last Poems of Les Murray

The Last Poems of Les Murray

From the Famed Australian Poet’s Collection, Continuous Creation

By Les Murray | April 27, 2022

AudioFile’s Best </br>Audiobooks of April

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Kyle Lukoff on Book Bans and Letting Queer Books Just Be Books

By NewberyTart | April 27, 2022

20 new books being published today.

By Katie Yee | April 26, 2022

Was George Eliot Wrong to Think Books Could Make People Better?

Was George Eliot Wrong to Think Books Could Make People Better?

Pamela Erens on Middlemarch and the Moral Value of Fiction

By Pamela Erens | April 26, 2022

Diving Into the “Uncanny Despair” of the Cruise Ship Narrative

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Lara Williams on David Foster Wallace, Wabi-sabi, and the Luxurious Veneer of Decay

By Lara Williams | April 26, 2022

Just How Depressing is <em>Good Morning, Midnight</em>?

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The Lit Century Podcast Reads Jean Rhys's 1939 Novel

By Lit Century | April 26, 2022

“James Baldwin writes down to nobody.” Read Langston Hughes’ 1958 Review of <em>Notes of a Native Son</em>

“James Baldwin writes down to nobody.” Read Langston Hughes’ 1958 Review of Notes of a Native Son

“He is trying very hard to write up to himself.”

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“Complete Attention to Two Things at Once.” On the Women Who Rewrote the Motherhood Plot

“Complete Attention to Two Things at Once.” On the Women Who Rewrote the Motherhood Plot

Julie Phillips Considers the Groundbreaking British Mother-Writers of the 1960s, from A.S. Byatt to Lorna Sage

By Julie Phillips | April 26, 2022

On Sigmund Freud and the “Dream Space” of the Hebrew Bible

On Sigmund Freud and the “Dream Space” of the Hebrew Bible

From Season 3 of The Cosmic Library Podcast

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On the Disappearing of Joan Vollmer Burroughs

On the Disappearing of Joan Vollmer Burroughs

Katie Bennett Measures the Emotional Toll of Writing a Feminist Recovery Story

By Katie Bennett | April 25, 2022

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