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On Discovering Real Mothers on the Page

On Discovering Real Mothers on the Page

Pamela Erens, Rivka Glachen, Julia Fierro, and writing about motherhood

By Jordan Rosenfeld | May 6, 2016

Why Does Literature Hate Babies?

Why Does Literature Hate Babies?

On the Sometimes Reciprocal Hostility Between Writing and Children

By Rivka Galchen | May 6, 2016

How Judy Blume Changed My Life

How Judy Blume Changed My Life

Lily King on the Book That Got Her Through Her Parents' Divorce

By Lily King | May 4, 2016

Writers, The Loneliest Artists of All

Writers, The Loneliest Artists of All

Michele Filgate on Solitude, Melissa Broder, and Olivia Laing

By Michele Filgate | May 4, 2016

On Don DeLillo's Deep Italian-American Roots

On Don DeLillo's Deep Italian-American Roots

On the Rich Artful Paranoia of the Son of a Jesuit

By Nick Ripatrazone | May 3, 2016

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

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How Books Can Help Us Survive a War

By Emily Gray Tedrowe | April 28, 2016

Jim Harrison and Thomas McGuane, a Literary Friendship

By Nick Ripatrazone | April 28, 2016

The Joys (and Perils) of Literary Tourism

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"

By Juliane Okot Bitek | April 25, 2016

Hamlet Was a Bro Who Didn't Even Like Sex

Hamlet Was a Bro Who Didn't Even Like Sex

Jillian Keenan Makes Much Ado About 'Nothing'

By Jillian Keenan | April 25, 2016

In Praise of Remixing Shakespeare

In Praise of Remixing Shakespeare

Why the Bard Would Have Approved of Contemporary Retellings

By Andrew Hartley | April 25, 2016

What Was Shakespeare's Central Philosophy?

What Was Shakespeare's Central Philosophy?

Life, like theater, is fundamentally a fiction

By Ed Simon | April 25, 2016

If <em>Jane Eyre</em> Came Out Today Would It Be Marketed As Genre?

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

On Proto-Feminist and Commercial Powerhouse Charlotte Brontë

By Lyndsay Faye | April 21, 2016

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

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

Wide Sargasso Sea and The Limits of Bronte Feminism

By Bridget Read | April 21, 2016

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