I Love <em>The Great Gatsby</em>, Even if it Doesn't Love Me Back

I Love The Great Gatsby, Even if it Doesn't Love Me Back

On Difficult Characters and the Unbearable Whiteness of Classic Literature

By Stephanie Powell Watts | April 3, 2017

If Fiction Changes the World, It's Going to Be YA

If Fiction Changes the World, It's Going to Be YA

the kids aren’t just all right—they’re better than us

By Emily Temple | March 23, 2017

<em>Get Out</em>, Claudia Rankine, and the Horror of Black Hypervisibility

Get Out, Claudia Rankine, and the Horror of Black Hypervisibility

On the Stag, the Sunken Place, and the Surveillance of Black Bodies

By Victoria Newton Ford | March 23, 2017

The Future: Where Sexual Ambivalence Meets Sexual Gentrification

The Future: Where Sexual Ambivalence Meets Sexual Gentrification

On Polyamory, Silicon Valley, and the Investigations of Emily Witt

By Dion Kagan | March 15, 2017

When Femininity is Code for Feelings

When Femininity is Code for Feelings

On Failure, Motherhood, and Flightless Birds

By Lynn Steger Strong | March 15, 2017

Rebecca Solnit on Silence, Pornography, and Feminist Literature

Rebecca Solnit on Silence, Pornography, and Feminist Literature

From Virginia Woolf to Betty Friedan to Audre Lorde...

By Rebecca Solnit | March 8, 2017

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Trump in a Toga? On the Lessons (or Lack Therof) in Historical Fiction

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Sinclair Lewis, American Prophet

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The Adolescent Charm of Bad Celebrity Poetry

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In Praise of Bossy Big Sisters

In Praise of Bossy Big Sisters

On the Lesser-Loved Counterparts of our Favorite Young Protagonists

By Erika Smith | March 3, 2017

Dear Fellow Traveler: A Close Reading of the Magnetic Guest Journals at Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn

Dear Fellow Traveler: A Close Reading of the Magnetic Guest Journals at Deetjen’s Big Sur Inn

Anna Journey on the Magical Living Document at Deetjen's Smallest and Most Remote Guest Cottage

By Anna Journey | March 1, 2017

On the Importance of the Public School Novel, Right Now

On the Importance of the Public School Novel, Right Now

Moving Beyond the Prep School Canon

By Nick Ripatrazone | February 27, 2017

The Life and Legacy of Bharati Mukherjee

The Life and Legacy of Bharati Mukherjee

Anjali Enjeti Remembers the Matriarch of Indian-American Literature

By Anjali Enjeti | February 27, 2017

How Mary Miller's Stories Demystify the White Working Class

How Mary Miller's Stories Demystify the White Working Class

On the Socioeconomic and Racial Dynamics in Always Happy Hour

By Alex Gallo-Brown | February 23, 2017

Behind the Dedications: Hunter S. Thompson

Behind the Dedications: Hunter S. Thompson

A look at the family, friends and substances to which Thompson dedicated his books

By Arvind Dilawar | February 20, 2017

In Praise of the New Aphorism, No Longer Just For Great Men

In Praise of the New Aphorism, No Longer Just For Great Men

How Sarah Manguso, Maggie Nelson, and Rivka Galchen Are Making It New

By Kristen Martin | February 16, 2017

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