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What Does Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 Offer Readers Today?

What Does Shakespeare's Sonnet 18 Offer Readers Today?

Introducing The History of Literature Podcast

By History of Literature | August 24, 2020

In Life as in Mythology, Greece is a Place of Frustrated Migrations

In Life as in Mythology, Greece is a Place of Frustrated Migrations

Matteo Nucci on Odysseus, the Greco-Turkish War, and the Plight of Modern Refugees

By Matteo Nucci | August 24, 2020

Benjamin Nugent on Writing About Male Privilege After #MeToo

Benjamin Nugent on Writing About Male Privilege After #MeToo

In Conversation with Mitzi Rapkin on the First Draft Podcast

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | August 24, 2020

Dear <em>Catcher in the Rye</em>: <br>A Love Letter

Dear Catcher in the Rye:
A Love Letter

Mary O’Connell on Her Favorite Book and Its Conflicted Legacy

By Mary O'Connell | August 21, 2020

13 Ways of Looking at Flash Fiction

13 Ways of Looking at Flash Fiction

Grant Faulkner on the Infinite Possibilities of Brevity

By Grant Faulkner | August 21, 2020

How Dante Alighieri Invented Italy

How Dante Alighieri Invented Italy

On the New Books Network Podcast

By New Books Network | August 21, 2020

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Growing Up With Ray Bradbury's Ghost in Waukegan, Illinois

By Colleen Abel | August 21, 2020

Why You Should Trust Your Reading Instincts (and an Ode to Aimee Bender)

By So Many Damn Books | August 21, 2020

On Percival Everett’s Almost Secret Experiment in a Novel
in Threes

By David Lerner Schwartz | August 20, 2020

If You Want to See Who Someone Really Is, Get Them on a Tennis Court

If You Want to See Who Someone Really Is, Get Them on a Tennis Court

Professional Tennis Player Andrea Petkovic on Reading Philip Roth
and Finding Hard Truths

By Andrea Petkovic | August 20, 2020

Breaking Down the Roiling, Emotional Middle of a James Baldwin Narrative

Breaking Down the Roiling, Emotional Middle of a James Baldwin Narrative

Daniel Joshua Rubin on If Beale Street Could Talk

By Daniel Joshua Rubin | August 19, 2020

In Defense of Psychoanalysis and Writing Freudian Fiction

In Defense of Psychoanalysis and Writing Freudian Fiction

Jessica Gross Goes Deep to Figure It All Out

By Jessica Gross | August 19, 2020

<em>Mrs. Bridge</em> Is a Perfect Novel. But How Does It Work?

Mrs. Bridge Is a Perfect Novel. But How Does It Work?

Unpacking an Underread American Classic

By Emily Temple | August 18, 2020

The Literature of Elder Care is Often About Shifting Power Dynamics

The Literature of Elder Care is Often About Shifting Power Dynamics

Ellyn Lem on Works by Shakespeare, Lauren Fox, and Others

By Ellyn A. Lem | August 17, 2020

Finding Catharsis in the Story <br>of a Family Betrayal

Finding Catharsis in the Story
of a Family Betrayal

Darin Strauss on the Line Between Novel and Mythic Memoir

By Darin Strauss | August 17, 2020

Does Every Country Need to Have Its Own Sylvia Plath?

Does Every Country Need to Have Its Own Sylvia Plath?

Rhian Sasseen on the Inescapability of Plath for Female Writers

By Rhian Sasseen | August 17, 2020

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