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Oliverio Girondo's Absurd Cosmopolitan World

Oliverio Girondo's Absurd Cosmopolitan World

Meet the Flamboyant Poet of the Argentine Avant-Garde

By Harris Feinsod and Rachel Galvin | December 13, 2018

Rewriting Trauma: The Business of Storytelling in the Age of the Algorithm

Rewriting Trauma: The Business of Storytelling in the Age of the Algorithm

Screenwriter James Schamus on What Goes Into the TV You're Binge-Watching

By James Schamus | December 12, 2018

On James Baldwin's Dispatches from the Heart of the Civil Rights Movement

On James Baldwin's Dispatches from the Heart of the Civil Rights Movement

The Making of an Iconic Essayist

By Ed Pavlić | December 10, 2018

Poet of the Disappeared: On the Writing of Raúl Zurita

Poet of the Disappeared: On the Writing of Raúl Zurita

"There is power and agency in staying in a dangerous place when one has the choice to leave."

By Norma Cole | December 7, 2018

Of Willa Cather's Lasting Love For the Frontier

Of Willa Cather's Lasting Love For the Frontier

"I Do Think My Heart Never Got Across the Missouri River.”

By Catherine Pond | December 7, 2018

Looking for God in the Writing of Denis Johnson

Looking for God in the Writing of Denis Johnson

"Eternity, in Johnson’s work, is a thing you can hold in your hands."

By Aaron Thier | December 5, 2018

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Before the Neapolitan Quartet, There Was <em>Sula</em>

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The Forgotten Fairy Tale Genius of Édouard Laboulaye

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Political Parables of 19th-Century Democracy

By Jack Zipes and Édouard Laboulaye | November 19, 2018

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