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Paul Bowles: 'Here's My Message. Everything Gets Worse'

Paul Bowles: 'Here's My Message. Everything Gets Worse'

Paul Theroux on the Existentialism of The Sheltering Sky

By Paul Theroux | May 11, 2018

Reading <em>The Golden Notebook</em> During a Summer of Too Many Weddings

Reading The Golden Notebook During a Summer of Too Many Weddings

On Doris Lessing's Exploration of the "Free Woman"

By Lara Feigel | May 10, 2018

Why Do Horror Stories Resonate So Deeply Right Now?

Why Do Horror Stories Resonate So Deeply Right Now?

From Get Out to The Changeling, These Are Creepy (Fictional) Times

By Tobias Carroll | May 10, 2018

What Snow White and the Evil Queen Taught Me About Desire

What Snow White and the Evil Queen Taught Me About Desire

"Fairy Tales Don’t Tell Children to Stop Wanting—Only to Be Careful"

By Julia Fine | May 8, 2018

Data-Driven Amazon Bookstores Can't Compete with Indies

Data-Driven Amazon Bookstores Can't Compete with Indies

So What, Exactly, is the Point?

By Antón Barba-Kay | May 4, 2018

How to Suppress Women's Writing:

How to Suppress Women's Writing: "She Only Wrote One Good Book."

Subversive Works are Buried, While Stereotypical Ones are Upheld

By Joanna Russ | May 3, 2018

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Margaret Atwood on How She Came to Write <em>The Handmaid's Tale</em>

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The Origin Story of an Iconic Novel

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Two Novels That Interrogate the Principle of the Few Over the Many

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Jane Austen and the Timeless Tradition of Mansplaining

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The Meanest Things Vladimir Nabokov Said About Other Writers

The Meanest Things Vladimir Nabokov Said About Other Writers

"Many accepted authors simply do not exist for me."

By Emily Temple | April 20, 2018

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