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The Unexpectedly Subversive World of Romance Novels

The Unexpectedly Subversive World of Romance Novels

Helen Taylor on Books That Truly Embrace Female Autonomy and Desire

By Helen Taylor | March 16, 2020

For Gothic Heroines, Haunted Houses Are Always Too Big

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Liesl Schillinger on Catastrophe, Contagion, and the Human Condition

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Snobs, Sophisticates, and Scathing Reviews in Wartime London

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A Close Reading of the Chilling Prologue of Donna Tartt's <em>The Secret History</em>

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