You Can Blame Geoffrey Chaucer for Valentine's Day

You Can Blame Geoffrey Chaucer for Valentine's Day

But Probably Not For Your Loneliness

By Emily Temple | February 14, 2020

In Renouncing the Myths of Old California, Did Joan Didion Deflect Responsibility?

In Renouncing the Myths of Old California, Did Joan Didion Deflect Responsibility?

Michelle Chihara Digs Through the Didion Family's Land Records

By Michelle Chihara | February 14, 2020

The Graveyard Talks Back: <br>Arundhati Roy on Fiction in the Time of Fake News

The Graveyard Talks Back:
Arundhati Roy on Fiction in the Time of Fake News

What is the Role of the Writer in a Time of Rising Nationalism?

By Arundhati Roy | February 12, 2020

We Are All Just Living in Jenny Offill's World

We Are All Just Living in Jenny Offill's World

Kristin Iversen Talks to the Author of Weather

By Kristin Iversen | February 11, 2020

Vivian Gornick on the Solace and Revelation of Natalia Ginzburg

Vivian Gornick on the Solace and Revelation of Natalia Ginzburg

"In time, they seemed written for me."

By Vivian Gornick | February 11, 2020

What to Leave In, What to Leave Out: My Conversations with David Foster Wallace

What to Leave In, What to Leave Out: My Conversations with David Foster Wallace

Adrienne Miller on Literary Life in the 1990s

By Adrienne Miller | February 11, 2020

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A Novel That Celebrates—and Mourns—Pre-Revolutionary Iran

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The Fraught Task of Describing Life with David Foster Wallace

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Vivian Gornick and the Revolution That Won't End

By John Freeman | February 10, 2020

The Maggie Nelson Test for Lesbian Dating Success

The Maggie Nelson Test for Lesbian Dating Success

Jenn Shapland on The Argonauts and Building a Life

By Jenn Shapland | February 10, 2020

Brilliance and Blind Spots:<br> Rereading Joan Didion in This Hard American Winter of 2020

Brilliance and Blind Spots:
Rereading Joan Didion in This Hard American Winter of 2020

Gabrielle Bellot on the Seminal Essay, "On Self-Respect"

By Gabrielle Bellot | February 7, 2020

How Detective Fiction Took Hold of Los Angeles

How Detective Fiction Took Hold of Los Angeles

Sam Wasson on the Creation of a City's Mythology

By Sam Wasson | February 7, 2020

Searching for Queerness in the Corners of History

Searching for Queerness in the Corners of History

On Jenn Shapland and "Hunting Lesbians"

By Catie Disabato | February 7, 2020

The 25 Best Bad Amazon Reviews of<br> <em>The Talented Mr. Ripley</em>

The 25 Best Bad Amazon Reviews of
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"OK, first of all, Ripley is a loser."

By Emily Temple | February 4, 2020

Googling Literary Lesbians: <br>On Carson McCullers and the Erotics of Incompletion

Googling Literary Lesbians:
On Carson McCullers and the Erotics of Incompletion

Sarah Heying Asks "The Sappho Question"

By Sarah Heying | February 4, 2020

Jane Austen, Gritty Educational Reformer of the Working Class

Jane Austen, Gritty Educational Reformer of the Working Class

Janine Barchas on How the Proliferation of Penny Editions
Brought Literature to the Masses

By Janine Barchas | February 4, 2020

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