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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

Billy Kahora on Binyavanga Wainaina's Groundbreaking Work

Billy Kahora on Binyavanga Wainaina's Groundbreaking Work

"Nothing was impossible for a writer like him."

By Billy Kahora | May 24, 2019

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

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

In Celebration of a Writer, Bill-Payer, and Bordello Owner

By Jaime Fuller | May 24, 2019

What Happens When You Pose as Susan Sontag on Twitter?

What Happens When You Pose as Susan Sontag on Twitter?

Rebecca Brill on Inhabiting the Diaries of a Great Mind

By Rebecca Brill | May 23, 2019

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How Imagining Other Worlds Can Help You Imagine Other Selves

By Veronica Esposito | May 22, 2019

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

By Brandon Taylor | May 22, 2019

Six of the Best Bad Women in Fiction

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
How to Avoid Them

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Trying to Figure Out Bruce Chatwin's Unpublished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Trying to Figure Out Bruce Chatwin's Unpublished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

On a New Generation of Villainous Women, From Witches to Wicked Stepmothers

On a New Generation of Villainous Women, From Witches to Wicked Stepmothers

How Contemporary Writers Are Reframing Narratives Around Female Characters

By Alexis Gunderson | May 16, 2019

On Robert Caro, Great Men, and the Problem of Powerful Women in Biography

On Robert Caro, Great Men, and the Problem of Powerful Women in Biography

Caroline Fraser: “Power and ambition in women are often hidden, buried, shrouded, disguised, crushed, thwarted, mocked, warped, punished, or excoriated.”

By Caroline Fraser | May 16, 2019

Is Masculinity a Terrorist Ideology?

Is Masculinity a Terrorist Ideology?

Lacy Johnson on Rachel Louise Snyder and the Ways We Name Violence

By Lacy M. Johnson | May 15, 2019

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