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Ralph Ellison's Tragicomic Soul

Ralph Ellison's Tragicomic Soul

"Shit, Grit, and Mother Wit”

By Alejandro Nava | October 3, 2017

Art, Meat, and the Lives and Deaths of Animals

Art, Meat, and the Lives and Deaths of Animals

"Determining Whose Life is Grievable is an Act of Framing"

By Hayley Singer | October 2, 2017

Looking at the World Through My Character's Eyes

Looking at the World Through My Character's Eyes

On Roleplaying as Research

By Alison Moore | September 29, 2017

My Own Personal Herakles

My Own Personal Herakles

On Love, Loss, and the Fire at the Center of the Earth

By Renée Branum | September 29, 2017

We Have Always Dreamed of Other Worlds

We Have Always Dreamed of Other Worlds

Gabrielle Bellot on Literary Stargazing and Reckoning with the Infinite

By Gabrielle Bellot | September 29, 2017

Class, Race and the Case for Genre Fiction in the Canon

Class, Race and the Case for Genre Fiction in the Canon

Adrian McKinty on Reading the Real Giants of Literature

By Adrian McKinty | September 27, 2017

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The 1980s Tell-All That Scandalized Literary London

By Scott Spencer | September 27, 2017

Marianne Moore's Sexist Reception

By Evan Kindley | September 27, 2017

We Can't Ignore H.P. Lovecraft's White Supremacy

By Wes House | September 26, 2017

Did Mark Twain Anticipate the Nazis?

Did Mark Twain Anticipate the Nazis?

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By Arvind Dilawar | September 22, 2017

More than the Beauty or the Heroine

More than the Beauty or the Heroine

On Books by Julie Buntin and Carolyn Murnick That Complicate a Girlhood Trope

By Zan Romanoff | September 20, 2017

Gwendolyn Brooks, <em>Maud Martha</em>, and Other Immortal Mortals

Gwendolyn Brooks, Maud Martha, and Other Immortal Mortals

How Brooks Lives On Through Her Fictional Alter-Ego

By Carina del Valle Schorske | September 19, 2017

How Should a Male Writer Be? On the Toxic Competitiveness of Writers

How Should a Male Writer Be? On the Toxic Competitiveness of Writers

From Mailer and Vidal, to Christmas Party Punch-Ups, It's Rough Out There

By Alex Gilvarry | September 11, 2017

Cormac McCarthy's <em>Blood Meridian</em> Was Almost a Plain Old Western

Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian Was Almost a Plain Old Western

The Sneaky Literary Influences Behind a Modern American Classic

By Michael Lynn Crews | September 6, 2017

90 Lines For John Ashbery's 90th Birthday

90 Lines For John Ashbery's 90th Birthday

In Memory of a Great American Poet, We're Reposting Birthday Wishes From July

By Literary Hub | September 5, 2017

A Formidable Writer, An Exceptional Man: Philip Roth on Richard Stern

A Formidable Writer, An Exceptional Man: Philip Roth on Richard Stern

"His Direct Apprehension of the Real was Amazing"

By Philip Roth | September 1, 2017

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