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Barbara Comyns, Outsider Artist

Barbara Comyns, Outsider Artist

Without a Formal Education, She Produced Gothic Masterworks

By Nathan Scott McNamara | January 24, 2018

Same As It Ever Was: <em>Orientalism</em> Forty Years Later

Same As It Ever Was: Orientalism Forty Years Later

On Edward Said, Othering, and the Depictions of Arabs in America

By Philip Metres | January 23, 2018

Bad Faith Backlash: Arguing Online With Everyone and No One

Bad Faith Backlash: Arguing Online With Everyone and No One

The Last Jedi, and the Internet of Takes">On "Cat Person," The Last Jedi, and the Internet of Takes

By M. C. Mah | January 22, 2018

In California, Visions of Defiance and Grace

In California, Visions of Defiance and Grace

Finding Political Inspiration in the Unlikeliest of Places: The Opera

By Veronica Esposito | January 22, 2018

How to Read Caves

How to Read Caves

From Tennessee's Tuckaleechee Caverns to the
Caves of John Keats, Virgil, and Virginia Woolf

By Susan Harlan | January 19, 2018

The Literature of Bad Sex

The Literature of Bad Sex

Hermione Hoby on Power, Eros, and the Perfect Timing of 'Cat Person'

By Hermione Hoby | January 18, 2018

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Good Writers Borrow, Great Writers Remix

By Lincoln Michel | January 12, 2018

Surviving 2017 with Borges: On the Art of Wonder and Wonder of Art

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 10, 2018

Hot Sex With Sea Monsters: A Comparative Study

By Emily Temple | January 9, 2018

Mothers, Daughters, Lovers: On the Groundbreaking Art of Kathleen Collins

Mothers, Daughters, Lovers: On the Groundbreaking Art of Kathleen Collins

Danielle Jackson Finds Inspiration in Whatever Happened to Interracial Love

By Danielle Jackson | January 3, 2018

J.M. Coetzee: Eight Ways of Looking at Samuel Beckett

J.M. Coetzee: Eight Ways of Looking at Samuel Beckett

Imagining Professor Kafka and Beckett on the Beach

By J.M. Coetzee | January 2, 2018

Haunted by the Ghosts of Henry James and Jean Rhys

Haunted by the Ghosts of Henry James and Jean Rhys

Maud Casey on the Mysteries of Literature

By Maud Casey | January 2, 2018

Ali Smith on the Prescient Genius of J.G. Ballard

Ali Smith on the Prescient Genius of J.G. Ballard

Super-Cannes: A Perfect Novel of the Millenium

By Ali Smith | December 28, 2017

Is <em>Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas</em> a Work of Genius?

Is Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas a Work of Genius?

On Russell and Lillian Hoban, Giants of 20th-Century Children's Literature

By Rebecca Rego Barry | December 20, 2017

The Privilege of Plotlessness

The Privilege of Plotlessness

Lynn Steger Strong on Reading About Rich People While the World Burns

By Lynn Steger Strong | December 18, 2017

A Close Reading of the Best Opening Paragraph of All Time

A Close Reading of the Best Opening Paragraph of All Time

From Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle, of course

By Emily Temple | December 15, 2017

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