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Andrea Long Chu on Desire, Weak Love, and Modern Trans Identity

Andrea Long Chu on Desire, Weak Love, and Modern Trans Identity

The Author of Females: A Concern, in Conversation with Eric Newman

By Eric Newman | October 29, 2019

How to Resist Late-Stage Capitalism—and Other Lessons From <em>Charlotte's Web</em>

How to Resist Late-Stage Capitalism—and Other Lessons From Charlotte's Web

Erin Wisti on E.B. White's Classic of Radical Decency

By Erin Wisti | October 28, 2019

What Would a World With Less Work Look Like?

What Would a World With Less Work Look Like?

Charlie Tyson on the Philosophy of Idleness and Imagining the Impossible

By Charlie Tyson | October 28, 2019

How Mermaid Stories Illustrate Complex Truths About<br> Being Human

How Mermaid Stories Illustrate Complex Truths About
Being Human

The Tropes, Tricks, and Tools We Find in Tales of Merfolk

By Cristina Bacchilega | October 25, 2019

On Reconfiguring the Modernist Flaneur and Writing in a<br> Post-Truth Age

On Reconfiguring the Modernist Flaneur and Writing in a
Post-Truth Age

Jana Prikryl and Joanna Kavenna in Conversation

By Joanna Kavenna | October 25, 2019

On the Many Different Engines That Power a Short Story

On the Many Different Engines That Power a Short Story

It's Not Just Plot or Character That Drives Fiction

By Lincoln Michel | October 24, 2019

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The Yale Younger Poets Prize: A Microcosm of the American Poetry Landscape

By Carl Phillips | October 23, 2019

On the Countercultural Influence of Peanuts

By David L. Ulin | October 22, 2019

On the Darkness, Strangeness, and Unbridled Joy of Children's Books

By Cara Hoffman | October 22, 2019

Remembering Kate Braverman's Los Angeles

Remembering Kate Braverman's Los Angeles

Liska Jacobs on the Laureate of Southern California

By Liska Jacobs | October 22, 2019

Alejandro Zambra on One of the Great Diarists of the 20th Century

Alejandro Zambra on One of the Great Diarists of the 20th Century

Julio Ramon Ribeyro, Descendant of Kafka and Borges, True Skeptic of the Novel

By Alejandro Zambra | October 22, 2019

Marguerite Duras: Internet Essayist?

Marguerite Duras: Internet Essayist?

On Leaving a Public Record of Your Mistakes

By Maddie Crum | October 21, 2019

Capturing Natural Coincidences, in Fiction and Life

Capturing Natural Coincidences, in Fiction and Life

Martha Cooley on the Vajont Disaster, Julio Cortazar, and the Strange Power of Serendipity

By Martha Cooley | October 21, 2019

Do Printed-Out Emails Count As Letters? (Yes)

Do Printed-Out Emails Count As Letters? (Yes)

Dheepa Maturi on the Value of Epistolary Correspondence,
in What Ever Form

By Dheepa R. Maturi | October 21, 2019

On the Sexist Reception of Willa Cather's World War I Novel

On the Sexist Reception of Willa Cather's World War I Novel

From Hemingway to Mencken, No One Thought a Woman Could Write About Combat

By Rebecca Onion | October 21, 2019

On J.M. Coetzee's <em>Age of Iron</em>: Perennially, Lamentably, Current

On J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron: Perennially, Lamentably, Current

John Freeman Rereads a Contemporary Classic

By John Freeman | October 18, 2019

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