Can We Ever Escape History? On Walter Kempowski's Life's Work

Can We Ever Escape History? On Walter Kempowski's Life's Work

An Antidote to the Traumatic Experiences of a Wartime Childhood

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How Do You Write One of Humanity's Most Intimate Moments?

How Do You Write One of Humanity's Most Intimate Moments?

Toward a Unified Literary Theory of the Kiss

By Brian Turner | February 14, 2018

How Medieval Storytellers Shape Our Understanding of Romance

How Medieval Storytellers Shape Our Understanding of Romance

Matters of the Heart, from Arthurian Legend to Tristan and Isolde

By Marilyn Yalom | February 14, 2018

On the Very Contemporary Art of Flash Fiction

On the Very Contemporary Art of Flash Fiction

"To Be Brief Takes Time"

By John Dufresne | February 13, 2018

Every Publication is a Kind of Death

Every Publication is a Kind of Death

Patrick Nathan on the Beautiful Morbidity of Language

By Patrick Nathan | February 12, 2018

The Literature of Ezili, Vodou Spirit Force of Queer Black Womanhood

The Literature of Ezili, Vodou Spirit Force of Queer Black Womanhood

Why Do Artists Return Again and Again to Ezili?

By Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley | February 9, 2018

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The Hunter and His Gun: An American Myth That Just Won't Die

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