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What Snow White and the Evil Queen Taught Me About Desire

What Snow White and the Evil Queen Taught Me About Desire

"Fairy Tales Don’t Tell Children to Stop Wanting—Only to Be Careful"

By Julia Fine | May 8, 2018

Data-Driven Amazon Bookstores Can't Compete with Indies

Data-Driven Amazon Bookstores Can't Compete with Indies

So What, Exactly, is the Point?

By Antón Barba-Kay | May 4, 2018

How to Suppress Women's Writing:

How to Suppress Women's Writing: "She Only Wrote One Good Book."

Subversive Works are Buried, While Stereotypical Ones are Upheld

By Joanna Russ | May 3, 2018

The Burden of a Thousand Possible Lives: On Motherhood and Conflicting Desires

The Burden of a Thousand Possible Lives: On Motherhood and Conflicting Desires

Reading Motherhood and And Now We Have Everything

By Jennifer Schaffer | May 2, 2018

On Marjane Satrapi’s Early #MeToo Novel

On Marjane Satrapi’s Early #MeToo Novel

How Embroideries Reveals the Power of Women's Stories

By Gabrielle Bellot | April 30, 2018

Our Imaginations Need to Dwell <em>Where the Wild Things Are</em>

Our Imaginations Need to Dwell Where the Wild Things Are

How Children's Literature Leads Us to the Uncanny

By Liam Heneghan | April 30, 2018

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Van Morrison, Unlikeliest of Literary Muses

By Tobias Carroll | April 26, 2018

Reading Rilke in Paris's Jardin des Plantes

By Henri Cole | April 26, 2018

On the Ways We Read (and Are Written To)

By Damon Young | April 26, 2018

Margaret Atwood on How She Came to Write <em>The Handmaid's Tale</em>

Margaret Atwood on How She Came to Write The Handmaid's Tale

The Origin Story of an Iconic Novel

By Margaret Atwood | April 25, 2018

When Fiction Pulls Back the Curtain on American Conservatism

When Fiction Pulls Back the Curtain on American Conservatism

Two Novels That Interrogate the Principle of the Few Over the Many

By Colette Shade | April 24, 2018

Jane Austen and the Timeless Tradition of Mansplaining

Jane Austen and the Timeless Tradition of Mansplaining

From Austen to Rebecca Solnit, Men Will Explain Things

By Kelly Marie Coyne | April 23, 2018

The Meanest Things Vladimir Nabokov Said About Other Writers

The Meanest Things Vladimir Nabokov Said About Other Writers

"Many accepted authors simply do not exist for me."

By Emily Temple | April 20, 2018

It's Never Too Soon for Art (or Politics) About Trauma

It's Never Too Soon for Art (or Politics) About Trauma

Tom McAllister on Writing a Novel About a School Shooting

By Tom McAllister | April 20, 2018

<em>Silent Spring</em> is More than a Scientific Landmark: It's Literature

Silent Spring is More than a Scientific Landmark: It's Literature

On the Underrated Poetry of Rachel Carson's Masterpiece

By Rebecca Renner | April 20, 2018

The Bottomless Generosity of the Writer's Memoir

The Bottomless Generosity of the Writer's Memoir

On Alexander Chee, Leslie Jamison, and Writing About Writing

By Larissa Pham | April 18, 2018

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