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What Gets Lost (and Found) in Translating Prose to Comics

What Gets Lost (and Found) in Translating Prose to Comics

Tobias Carroll on the Generative Power of Literary Adaptation

By Tobias Carroll | May 29, 2019

Vasily Grossman and the Plight of Soviet Jewish Scientists

Vasily Grossman and the Plight of Soviet Jewish Scientists

The Tragic Tale of the Physicist Lev Shtrum

By Alexandra Popoff and Tatiana Dettmer | May 29, 2019

Jim Harrison's Last Poems—of Love and the Earth—Are the Arguments We Should Be Having

Jim Harrison's Last Poems—of Love and the Earth—Are the Arguments We Should Be Having

Dean Kuipers Reads the Poet's Posthumous Collection

By Dean Kuipers | May 28, 2019

Hiking Cormac McCarthy's Western Wilderness During an Immigration Crisis

Hiking Cormac McCarthy's Western Wilderness During an Immigration Crisis

Raksha Vasudevan on Coming Face-to-Face With the Myths that Make America

By Raksha Vasudevan | May 28, 2019

Are You a Roger or a Tiger? On Specialization vs. Variety

Are You a Roger or a Tiger? On Specialization vs. Variety

Hamilton Cain Considers David Epstein's Range

By Hamilton Cain | May 28, 2019

Why We'll Never Get Tired of Literary Retellings

Why We'll Never Get Tired of Literary Retellings

Meg Donohue on the Enduring Appeal of Updating Old Stories

By Meg Donohue | May 28, 2019

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Billy Kahora on Binyavanga Wainaina's Groundbreaking Work

By Billy Kahora | May 24, 2019

On Cora Crane and the Literary Women Who Prop Up Literary Men

By Jaime Fuller | May 24, 2019

What Happens When You Pose as Susan Sontag on Twitter?

By Rebecca Brill | May 23, 2019

How Imagining Other Worlds Can Help You Imagine Other Selves

How Imagining Other Worlds Can Help You Imagine Other Selves

Veronica Esposito on the Literary Paradigm Shift
That Came with Her Transition

By Veronica Esposito | May 22, 2019

Brandon Taylor: When to Protect Your Characters, and When to Punish Them

Brandon Taylor: When to Protect Your Characters, and When to Punish Them

On Alice Munro, Karl-Ove Knausgaard, and the Impulses of the MFA

By Brandon Taylor | May 22, 2019

Six of the Best Bad Women in Fiction

Six of the Best Bad Women in Fiction

From Jane Eyre to Olive Kitteridge, Sara Collins Favorite Flawed Protagonists

By Sara Collins | May 22, 2019

13 Common Mistakes in Book Reviewing and <br>How to Avoid Them

13 Common Mistakes in Book Reviewing and
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Jay A. Fernandez is Looking to Write Some Wrongs

By Jay A. Fernandez | May 21, 2019

Trying to Figure Out Bruce Chatwin's Unpublished<br> Magnum Opus

Trying to Figure Out Bruce Chatwin's Unpublished
Magnum Opus

Jeremy Klemin on a Legendary Travel Writer's Attempt
to Figure It All Out

By Jeremy Klemin | May 20, 2019

The Ongoing Exile of the Undocumented

The Ongoing Exile of the Undocumented

Oscar Villalon on The Death and Life of Aida Hernandez

By Oscar Villalon | May 17, 2019

Discovering an Iconic Literary Character Was Based on Your Grandfather

Discovering an Iconic Literary Character Was Based on Your Grandfather

Did Joseph Heller Base Catch-22's John Yossarian on Julius Fish?

By Brian Birnbaum | May 16, 2019

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