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Six Reasons Why You Must Read Proust

Six Reasons Why You Must Read Proust

Happy Birthday, Marcel

By Joshua Zajdman | July 11, 2016

Really, Here's Why You Should Read Proust

Really, Here's Why You Should Read Proust

Marcel Proust's Biographer Makes the Case

By William C. Carter | July 11, 2016

Oedipa Maas: Our Guide to Contemporary Paranoia

Oedipa Maas: Our Guide to Contemporary Paranoia

The Ongoing Relevance of Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, 50 Years Later

By Nick Ripatrazone | July 7, 2016

The Genius of William Shawn, and the Invention of <em>The New Yorker</em>

The Genius of William Shawn, and the Invention of The New Yorker

David Remnick on the Post-War Evolution of an American Literary Institution

By David Remnick | July 5, 2016

How Michael Herr Transcended New Journalism

How Michael Herr Transcended New Journalism

Robert Stone on Dispatches, Groundbreaking Reportage from the Vietnam War

By Robert Stone | June 28, 2016

What It Means To Be an Inclusive Literary Journal

What It Means To Be an Inclusive Literary Journal

Zinzi Clemmons on the Importance of Editors of Color

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The Man in the Macintosh: One of Literature's Great Mysteries

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Borges is Still Dead. (Or Is He? And Which Borges?)

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