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What’s Behind the Label ‘Domestic Fiction’?

What’s Behind the Label ‘Domestic Fiction’?

Soledad Fox Maura on Rethinking Genre

By Soledad Fox Maura | January 25, 2021

Writing a Saudi American Novel When No One Has Done It Before

Writing a Saudi American Novel When No One Has Done It Before

Eman Quotah on the Beginning of a Tradition

By Eman Quotah | January 25, 2021

The Troubled Task of Defining Southern Literature in 2021

The Troubled Task of Defining Southern Literature in 2021

Ed Tarkington Reckons with a Fraught Literary History

By Ed Tarkington | January 22, 2021

Why Should We Read Unfinished Novels?

Why Should We Read Unfinished Novels?

Matthew Redmond on Fragments of Edgar Allan Poe, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and More

By Matthew Redmond | January 22, 2021

Martín Espada on Framing the Present Through the Lens of the Past

Martín Espada on Framing the Present Through the Lens of the Past

The Author of Floaters in Conversation with Peter Mishler

By Peter Mishler | January 22, 2021

Why AI Can’t Properly Translate Proust—Yet

Why AI Can’t Properly Translate Proust—Yet

Michael Wooldridge on the Limits of Literary Automation

By Michael Wooldridge | January 20, 2021

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What Makes Flowers in the Attic the Perfect Quarantine Read?

By Lit Century | January 20, 2021

Patricia Highsmith’s Confessions and Rebellions at Yaddo

By Richard Bradford | January 19, 2021

Yiyun Li on the Brilliance of Bette Howland

By Yiyun Li | January 15, 2021

How Honest is Too Honest? 6 Books That Straddle That Line

How Honest is Too Honest? 6 Books That Straddle That Line

Michael Leviton Recommends Richard Wright,
Joyce Maynard, and More

By Michael Leviton | January 15, 2021

Why Kim Stanley Robinson Wrote a New Cli-Fi Novel... in Which Things Actually Get Better

Why Kim Stanley Robinson Wrote a New Cli-Fi Novel... in Which Things Actually Get Better

In Conversation with Rob Wolf on the New Books Network Podcast

By New Books Network | January 15, 2021

Amyra León on How Frida Kahlo Influenced Her to Write the Wound

Amyra León on How Frida Kahlo Influenced Her to Write the Wound

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast

By History of Literature | January 15, 2021

Revisiting the Brontës... Through Branwell's Reputed Affair

Revisiting the Brontës... Through Branwell's Reputed Affair

In Conversation with C.P. Lesley on the New Books Network Podcast

By New Books Network | January 15, 2021

Will Self: How Should We Read?

Will Self: How Should We Read?

In Praise of Literary Promiscuity in the Digital Age

By Will Self | January 14, 2021

6 Disorienting Reads for a Very Disorienting Time

6 Disorienting Reads for a Very Disorienting Time

Melissa Albert Suggests Susanna Clarke, Jo Walton, and More

By Melissa Albert | January 13, 2021

Bombs and Books: On Graham Greene’s Life During <br>World War II

Bombs and Books: On Graham Greene’s Life During
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Richard Greene Charts How a Great Writer Navigated a Period of Destructive Tumult

By Richard Greene | January 13, 2021

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