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All Our Possible Lives: On Sylvia Plath, Matt Haig, and the Female Suicide Narrative

All Our Possible Lives: On Sylvia Plath, Matt Haig, and the Female Suicide Narrative

Savannah Marciezyk Compares Textual Interpretations of The Midnight Library and The Bell Jar

By Savannah Marciezyk | September 22, 2021

10 Books by Women You May Have Missed in August

10 Books by Women You May Have Missed in August

Bethanne Patrick Recommends Liane de Pougy, Misimi Kubo, Angel Khoury, and More

By Bethanne Patrick | September 22, 2021

How Christopher Pike’s <em>Remember Me</em> Subverts 80s Teenage Tropes

How Christopher Pike’s Remember Me Subverts 80s Teenage Tropes

Kicking Off Season Two of the Lit Century Podcast

By Lit Century | September 21, 2021

Hiking with Dante? On Seeking Ourselves in the <em>Divine Comedy</em>

Hiking with Dante? On Seeking Ourselves in the Divine Comedy

Randy Boyagoda Considers the Many Longings of Dante’s Journey

By Randy Boyagoda | September 21, 2021

When Tennessee Williams Reached Out to a Besieged Truman Capote

When Tennessee Williams Reached Out to a Besieged Truman Capote

“I care about you more than you know.”

By Literary Hub | September 21, 2021

When C.S. Lewis Reviewed His Buddy’s Book... <em>The Hobbit</em>

When C.S. Lewis Reviewed His Buddy’s Book... The Hobbit

“You cannot anticipate it before you go there, as you cannot forget it once you have gone.”

By Book Marks | September 21, 2021

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In Defense of Labels: On Genre as a Literary Conversation

By Lincoln Michel | September 21, 2021

Understanding the Pervasive Influence of Silicon Valley: On Peter Thiel and the Sprawling History of the Tech Industry

By Max Chafkin | September 21, 2021

16 new books to get you out of your pandemic reading funk.

By Katie Yee | September 21, 2021

Inhabiting the Mind of the Worst Kind of Collaborator: A Nazi Kapo

Inhabiting the Mind of the Worst Kind of Collaborator: A Nazi Kapo

David Rieff on the Novelist Aleksandar Tišma, Whose Writing Was an Antidote to Banality and Kitsch

By David Rieff | September 20, 2021

On the Parallels Between Henry James’s Relationships and His Story “The Beast in the Jungle”

On the Parallels Between Henry James’s Relationships and His Story “The Beast in the Jungle”

From the History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | September 20, 2021

What the Poet Can Do in the Face of the Modern Colonial State

What the Poet Can Do in the Face of the Modern Colonial State

Aruni Kashyap Finds Defiance and Potential in Tradition of the Testimonio

By Aruni Kashyap | September 20, 2021

The Mistake No Dialogue Writer Should Ever Make

The Mistake No Dialogue Writer Should Ever Make

Dan O'Brien Has Some Thoughts on the Way Characters Should Talk

By Dan O'Brien | September 20, 2021

Why Everyone Should Read the Great Karen Tei Yamashita

Why Everyone Should Read the Great Karen Tei Yamashita

Josh Cook on This Year’s Recipient of the National Book Foundations’s Literarian Award

By Josh Cook | September 17, 2021

Interview with an Indie Press: After Hours Editions

Interview with an Indie Press: After Hours Editions

On the “Slow Burn” of Publishing Poetry

By Corinne Segal | September 17, 2021

An Alleged Lock of Emily Dickinson’s Hair is Selling for $450,000... <br>But Was it Stolen?

An Alleged Lock of Emily Dickinson’s Hair is Selling for $450,000...
But Was it Stolen?

Jen DeGregorio Investigates the Curious Case of a Great Poet’s Hair

By Jen DeGregorio | September 16, 2021

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