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Why Are There So Many Novels About Famous Writers?

Why Are There So Many Novels About Famous Writers?

Heller McAlpin Analyzes a Recent Surge in Biographical Fiction

By Heller McAlpin | April 29, 2016

How Books Can Help Us Survive a War

How Books Can Help Us Survive a War

A Sister Tries to Read Along With a Brother on the Front Lines

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Jim Harrison and Thomas McGuane, a Literary Friendship

Jim Harrison and Thomas McGuane, a Literary Friendship

From the Great North to the Great West to the Great American Novel

By Nick Ripatrazone | April 28, 2016

The Joys (and Perils) of Literary Tourism

The Joys (and Perils) of Literary Tourism

Laura Barnett on Seeing Another Country Through Fiction

By Laura Barnett | April 28, 2016

How Sylvia Plath's Rare Honors Thesis Helped Me Understand My Divided Self

How Sylvia Plath's Rare Honors Thesis Helped Me Understand My Divided Self

On the Poet's Understanding of Dostoevsky—and Herself

By Nathan Smith | April 26, 2016

On the Poet Warsan Shire, Nobody's Little Sister

On the Poet Warsan Shire, Nobody's Little Sister

"I Want to Make Love But My Hair Smells of War and Running"

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If Jane Eyre Came Out Today Would It Be Marketed As Genre?

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Charlotte Brontë May Have Started the Fire, But Jean Rhys Burned Down the House

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