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Writers at Work: The Year in Collected Essays

Writers at Work: The Year in Collected Essays

On 12 Books (and 4,554 Pages) by Journalists, Critics, Columnists, and Contributors

By Jonathan Russell Clark | December 14, 2015

Knausgaard Writes Like a Woman

Knausgaard Writes Like a Woman

Siri Hustvedt on Gendered Literature and the Feminization of Feelings

By Siri Hustvedt | December 10, 2015

A Lost Literary Legend of Iowa City

A Lost Literary Legend of Iowa City

On Mark Costello, the Midwest and The Murphy Stories

By Matthew Neill Null | December 10, 2015

Algeria After Camus

Algeria After Camus

The Missing History of Kamel Daoud's The Meursault Investigation

By Namara Smith | December 8, 2015

How The Literary Class System Is Impoverishing Literature

How The Literary Class System Is Impoverishing Literature

On the Systemic Economic Barriers to Being a Writer

By Lorraine Berry | December 4, 2015

How to Read a Movie Like a Book

How to Read a Movie Like a Book

In Which Richard Brody Completely Misses the Point of Brooklyn, the Movie

By Bridget Read | December 3, 2015

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When Setting Trumps Character

By Tobias Carroll | November 23, 2015

80 Books No Woman Should Read

By Rebecca Solnit | November 18, 2015

Ordinary Paris and the Art of Noticing

By Lauren Elkin | November 17, 2015

The Ever-Expanding World of David Mitchell

The Ever-Expanding World of David Mitchell

One Novel Out of Many, Filled With Eternally Recurring Characters

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Why We Read (And Write) Short Stories

Why We Read (And Write) Short Stories

Lorrie Moore on the form "second to none in power and efficiency"

By Lorrie Moore | November 6, 2015

Digging Through Kathy Acker’s Stuff

Digging Through Kathy Acker’s Stuff

Dodie Bellamy on the Intimacy of Wearing Acker's Clothes and Words

By Dodie Bellamy | November 6, 2015

Captain Fiction and the Gods of the Page

Captain Fiction and the Gods of the Page

Noy Holland on her Mentor, Gordon Lish

By Noy Holland | November 5, 2015

Breaking Up with Holden Caulfield

Breaking Up with Holden Caulfield

On Revisiting The Catcher in the Rye as an Adult

By Alison Currie | November 5, 2015

Witches, Demons, Mystics: When Writers Cross the Supernatural Line

Witches, Demons, Mystics: When Writers Cross the Supernatural Line

Is There Such a Thing as Magical Realist Non-Fiction?

By Tobias Carroll | October 30, 2015

In Praise of the Horrid Gothic Novel

In Praise of the Horrid Gothic Novel

Or: How the Structures of Gothic Feminism Apply to Halloween in NYC

By Bridget Read | October 30, 2015

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