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Rereading <em>Little Women</em> in its 150th Anniversary Year

Rereading Little Women in its 150th Anniversary Year

Could it Mean as Much to Me in My Thirties as it Had in Adolescence?

By Rebecca Foster | May 16, 2018

On Soseki's Bitingly Critical Novel, <em>I Am a Cat</em>

On Soseki's Bitingly Critical Novel, I Am a Cat

A Comic Evocation of the Author's Deep Pessimism about His Own Humanity

By John Nathan | May 16, 2018

George Saunders on the Emotional Realism of Bobbie Ann Mason

George Saunders on the Emotional Realism of Bobbie Ann Mason

Her Fiction is a Scale Model Where People Wander Beautiful, Hostile Dreamscapes

By George Saunders | May 15, 2018

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

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The Burden of a Thousand Possible Lives: On Motherhood and Conflicting Desires

The Burden of a Thousand Possible Lives: On Motherhood and Conflicting Desires

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On Marjane Satrapi’s Early #MeToo Novel

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How Children's Literature Leads Us to the Uncanny

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Van Morrison, Unlikeliest of Literary Muses

Van Morrison, Unlikeliest of Literary Muses

On the Outsize Influence of Astral Weeks

By Tobias Carroll | April 26, 2018

Reading Rilke in Paris's Jardin des Plantes

Reading Rilke in Paris's Jardin des Plantes

Henri Cole on Loneliness, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Brokeback Mountain

By Henri Cole | April 26, 2018

On the Ways We Read (and Are Written To)

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Damon Young on the Rarity and Fragility of Words on a Page

By Damon Young | April 26, 2018

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

Margaret Atwood on How She Came to Write The Handmaid's Tale

The Origin Story of an Iconic Novel

By Margaret Atwood | April 25, 2018

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