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Lessons From a Newly-Discovered Sylvia Plath Story

Lessons From a Newly-Discovered Sylvia Plath Story

It Would Be Easy to Write It Off—But We Shouldn't.

By Emily Van Duyne | January 24, 2019

On the Overlooked Eroticism of Mary Oliver

On the Overlooked Eroticism of Mary Oliver

Poetry as Affirmation of Queer Desire

By Jeanna Kadlec | January 23, 2019

What We Don't Know About Sylvia Plath

What We Don't Know About Sylvia Plath

On Revelations from a Chance Graveside Encounter

By Emily Van Duyne | January 22, 2019

David Treuer on the Myth of an Edenic, Pre-Columbian 'New' World

David Treuer on the Myth of an Edenic, Pre-Columbian 'New' World

Indigenous American Civilizations Are Far Older and More Complex Than History Suggests

By David Treuer | January 22, 2019

John McPhee: Seven Ways of Looking at a Writer

John McPhee: Seven Ways of Looking at a Writer

“I write about real people in real places. End of story.”

By Tyler Malone | January 17, 2019

How Domesticity is at the Heart of the Novel

How Domesticity is at the Heart of the Novel

On What It Is to Write About Everyday Life

By Tessa Hadley | January 16, 2019

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This Science Fiction Novelist Created a Feminist Language from Scratch

By Rebecca Romney | January 15, 2019

A Brief History of Children's Books: Nasty, Brutish, and Short

By Jennifer Traig | January 14, 2019

The Virtue of Giddiness in Art

By Rosie Haward | January 14, 2019

An Unnecessarily Close Reading of <em>That</em> Scene in <em>Portnoy's Complaint</em>

An Unnecessarily Close Reading of That Scene in Portnoy's Complaint

Chopped Meat Through the Kosher Grinder

By Emily Temple | January 11, 2019

How Do You Set James Joyce’s Most Famous Story on the Stage?

How Do You Set James Joyce’s Most Famous Story on the Stage?

Feasting with the Ghosts of “The Dead”

By Leslie Pariseau | January 10, 2019

An Oddly Poetic Account of Colorblindness from the Turn of the Last Century

An Oddly Poetic Account of Colorblindness from the Turn of the Last Century

the music of light."">"We may aptly term color the music of light."

By Emily Noyes Vanderpoel | January 10, 2019

Why Does Women's Writing About Relationships Need to be “Relatable”?

Why Does Women's Writing About Relationships Need to be “Relatable”?

Hint: It's a Word Men Use to Describe Their Writing in Order to Diminish It

By Blythe Roberson | January 10, 2019

The Unexpected Literary Pleasure of Marijuana Reviews

The Unexpected Literary Pleasure of Marijuana Reviews

Walk With Us Through a Transcendent Corner of the Internet

By Taylor Lannamann | January 9, 2019

Marcel Proust Was Almost Impossible to Edit

Marcel Proust Was Almost Impossible to Edit

Carol Clark on the Challenges of Editing and Translating The Prisoner

By Carol Clark | January 8, 2019

On the Freaky Foods of Fictional Worlds

On the Freaky Foods of Fictional Worlds

From Abundance to Scarcity, What Eating in Sci-Fi Says About the Real World

By Lizzy Saxe | January 7, 2019

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