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To Break the Story, You Must Break the Status Quo

To Break the Story, You Must Break the Status Quo

Rebecca Solnit on Why Journalists Need to Cause Trouble

By Rebecca Solnit | May 26, 2016

Where Trans Bodies and Straight Fragility Meet

Where Trans Bodies and Straight Fragility Meet

On Public Bathrooms, Anti-Trans Policies, and What Belongs to You

By Joseph Osmundson | May 26, 2016

Actually, All Writers Steal

Actually, All Writers Steal

On the Theft of Myriad Details (Cigarette Brands, Orgies, Feelings About Boyz II Men)

By Rufi Thorpe | May 24, 2016

Donald Trump Has Set Fire to America

Donald Trump Has Set Fire to America

On William Faulkner, White Trash, and 400 Years of Class War

By Lyz Lenz | May 24, 2016

Nikki Giovanni on Race, Hope, Fatherhood, and <em>Roots</em>

Nikki Giovanni on Race, Hope, Fatherhood, and Roots

On the 40th Anniversary of Alex Haley's Classic

By Nikki Giovanni | May 20, 2016

We Need More First-Hand Books About Urban Poverty

We Need More First-Hand Books About Urban Poverty

Lisa Levy on Dreamland, Evicted, and The Cook Up

By Lisa Levy | May 19, 2016

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What Does It Mean When We Call Women Girls?

By Robin Wasserman | May 18, 2016

How Writers Will Steal Your Life and Use it For Fiction

By Richard Cohen | May 18, 2016

How the Best Commencement Speech of All Time Was Bad for Literature

By Emily Harnett | May 17, 2016

The Unstoppable Myth of Alejandra Pizarnik

The Unstoppable Myth of Alejandra Pizarnik

A Poet of the Night, and Love, and Terror, and Tragedy

By Enrique Vila-Matas | May 17, 2016

How Katherine Dunn's <em>Geek Love</em> Saved Me

How Katherine Dunn's Geek Love Saved Me

For Helena Fitzgerald, the Right Book Came Along at the Right Time

By Helena Fitzgerald | May 17, 2016

I Am Jessa Crispin’s Problem with Publishing

I Am Jessa Crispin’s Problem with Publishing

Bethanne Patrick on Careerism, Criticism, and a Life in Books

By Bethanne Patrick | May 13, 2016

Luis J. Rodriguez: LA is a Great Poetry Town.

Luis J. Rodriguez: LA is a Great Poetry Town.

David L. Ulin on Los Angeles's poet laureate

By David L. Ulin | May 13, 2016

Even Dostoyevsky Hated Literary Readings

Even Dostoyevsky Hated Literary Readings

Why Can't We Sit Still and Listen for 20 Minutes?

By Daniel Torday | May 12, 2016

The Dimunition of Women Writers: An American Tradition

The Dimunition of Women Writers: An American Tradition

On Constance Fennimore Woolson, a Truly Great 19th-Century Novelist

By Anne Boyd Rioux | May 12, 2016

Why Fiction Needs More Women Scientists

Why Fiction Needs More Women Scientists

When A Plot is Handed to You on a Petri Dish, Write It

By Eileen Pollack | May 10, 2016

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