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You Don’t Have to Be a Veteran to Write About War

You Don’t Have to Be a Veteran to Write About War

Matt Gallagher on the Difference Between Experience and Authority

By Matt Gallagher | February 2, 2016

Our Darkest American Masterpiece

Our Darkest American Masterpiece

On the Perpetual Relevance of Miss Lonelyhearts

By Dustin Illingworth | January 27, 2016

One of the Great Unsung Crime Novels of the 20th Century

One of the Great Unsung Crime Novels of the 20th Century

Barry Gifford on the Long Wait for Elliott Chaze’s Black Wings Has My Angel

By Barry Gifford | January 19, 2016

A Brief History of Book Illustration

A Brief History of Book Illustration

Are We At the Start of Another Golden Age for Image/Text Collaboration?

By Chris Russell | January 14, 2016

A Reader's Manifesto for 2016

A Reader's Manifesto for 2016

Literary Resolutions from a Straight, White Male

By Jonathan Russell Clark | January 4, 2016

Actually, <em>Emma</em> is the Best Jane Austen Novel

Actually, Emma is the Best Jane Austen Novel

On the 200th Anniversary of a Classic, An Argument for Its Greatness

By Devoney Looser | December 23, 2015

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The Importance of Being Orwell

By Christopher Hitchens | December 22, 2015

Men Explain Lolita to Me

By Rebecca Solnit | December 17, 2015

Silence: Tool, Weapon, Gift, Myth?

By Michael Fallon | December 15, 2015

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

When Setting Trumps Character

When Setting Trumps Character

Great Writing About Place

By Tobias Carroll | November 23, 2015

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