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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

Can the Essay Still Surprise Us?

Can the Essay Still Surprise Us?

Suzanne Conklin Akbari Rethinks a Eurocentric Tradition

By Suzanne Conklin Akbari | August 14, 2020

Black Lives Matter in the Public Theater’s <em>Much Ado About Nothing</em>

Black Lives Matter in the Public Theater’s Much Ado About Nothing

Five Perspectives on Race and Shakespeare in 2020

By Arsh Dhillon, Phillip Michalak, Bernadette Looney, Sonia Kangaju, and Charles Onesti | August 14, 2020

John Giorno: Fighting the Battle of Gay Liberation in a Homophobic World

John Giorno: Fighting the Battle of Gay Liberation in a Homophobic World

Mark Dery on Great Demon Kings, the Memoir of an Icon

By Mark Dery | August 14, 2020

How the Corvette Helped Create Southern California Cool

How the Corvette Helped Create Southern California Cool

Peter Lunenfeld on Joan Didion and Angelyne

By Peter Lunenfeld | August 13, 2020

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Nathalie Sarraute: Between Genders and Genres

By Ann Jefferson | August 13, 2020

Yearning for My Grandmother Muriel Rukeyser (and Grappling With Her Legacy)

By Rebecca Rukeyser | August 12, 2020

Cree LeFavour on the Pleasures of the Limitless Reread

By Cree LeFavour | August 12, 2020

40 Hamlets, Ranked

40 Hamlets, Ranked

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

By Emily Temple | August 11, 2020

The Racist History of Celebrating the American Tomboy

The Racist History of Celebrating the American Tomboy

Lisa Selin Davis on the Endless Privileges Accorded to White Girls

By Lisa Selin Davis | August 11, 2020

When One Doctor-Turned-Novelist Reads Another

When One Doctor-Turned-Novelist Reads Another

Dr. Melanie Cheng Revisits the Fiction of Jacinta Halloran

By Melanie Cheng | August 11, 2020

My Father: The Genius, The Poet, Richard Eberhart

My Father: The Genius, The Poet, Richard Eberhart

Gretchen Cherington on Growing Up Surrounded by Great Thinkers

By Gretchen Cherington | August 7, 2020

Reading the First Drafts of<br> <em>Anna Karenina</em>

Reading the First Drafts of
Anna Karenina

Bob Blaisdell on Tolstoy's Creation and Pushkin's Influence

By Bob Blaisdell | August 6, 2020

On Flannery O’Connor’s Chronic Illness... and Chronic Racism

On Flannery O’Connor’s Chronic Illness... and Chronic Racism

Maggie Levantovskaya Searches for Literary Narratives of Lupus

By Maggie Levantovskaya | August 6, 2020

Learning to Write From Willie Nelson and One of the Greatest Albums of the 1970s

Learning to Write From Willie Nelson and One of the Greatest Albums of the 1970s

Odie Lindsey on POV Shifts and Moral Dilemmas on
Red Headed Stranger

By Odie Lindsey | August 5, 2020

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