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12 Writers on Their Own Famous Books

12 Writers on Their Own Famous Books

Atwood, Murakami, Roth and Others Unpack Their Masterpieces

By Emily Temple | November 14, 2018

<em>My Brilliant Friend</em> is the Kind of TV We Need Right Now: Slow

My Brilliant Friend is the Kind of TV We Need Right Now: Slow

The HBO Adaptation of Elena Ferrante is a Refreshing Change

By Emily Temple | November 12, 2018

Co-Parenting with Lord Byron, As Weird As It Sounds

Co-Parenting with Lord Byron, As Weird As It Sounds

Miranda Seymour the Precociousness of the Poet's Daughter

By Miranda Seymour | November 12, 2018

Virginia and Leonard Woolf Remember Their War Dead

Virginia and Leonard Woolf Remember Their War Dead

On One of Hogarth Press' Earliest Printings

By Joanna Scutts | November 12, 2018

What Folk Music Misses About Actual Folks

What Folk Music Misses About Actual Folks

Brian Laidlaw on the Pastoral Fantasy in Music and Poetry

By Brian Laidlaw | November 9, 2018

Simone de Beauvoir:

Simone de Beauvoir: "How Many Bland and Dull Escapist Novels There Are!"

The Author of The Second Sex... Calling It Like She Sees It

By Simone de Beauvoir | November 9, 2018

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The Moment Sylvia Plath Found Her Genius

By Craig Morgan Teicher | November 8, 2018

How Much Editing Was Done to Emily Dickinson's Poems After She Died?

By Julie Dobrow | November 8, 2018

The Queering of Boundaries in Cristina Rivera Garza's Fiction

By Veronica Esposito | November 8, 2018

The Polish Army Officer Who Conjured Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

The Polish Army Officer Who Conjured Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

On Józef Czapski's Wartime Lectures

By Eric Karpeles | November 7, 2018

Haiku: The Evolution of a Strict Poetic Game

Haiku: The Evolution of a Strict Poetic Game

From Bashō to Salinger and Everything in Between

By Hiroaki Sato | November 5, 2018

Literary Magazines Are Born to Die

Literary Magazines Are Born to Die

Five Defunct Journals We Should Not Forget

By Nick Ripatrazone | November 2, 2018

The Avid Reader: Sandra Cisneros on Elena Poniatowska

The Avid Reader: Sandra Cisneros on Elena Poniatowska

Having a Coffee with One of Mexico's Great Novelists

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The Zombies of Karl Marx:  Horror in Capitalism's Wake

The Zombies of Karl Marx: Horror in Capitalism's Wake

Brains, one might say, “to each according to his need.”

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How Much Did James Joyce Base

How Much Did James Joyce Base "The Dead" on His Own Family?

Colm Tóibín on the Greatest Short Story Ever Written

By Colm Tóibín | October 30, 2018

Literary Hoax is the Most Underappreciated Genre

Literary Hoax is the Most Underappreciated Genre

From James Macpherson to Lee Israel to JT LeRoy, It's All Good

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