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What George Orwell Wrote About the Dangers of Nationalism

What George Orwell Wrote About the Dangers of Nationalism

On Facts, Fallacies, and Power

By Kristian Williams | November 16, 2017

You Can Never Go Back: On Loving Children's Books as an Adult

You Can Never Go Back: On Loving Children's Books as an Adult

Why Visiting Old Fictional Friends is So Bittersweet

By Anya Jaremko-Greenwold | November 14, 2017

Latin America’s Answer to Karl Ove Knausgaard

Latin America’s Answer to Karl Ove Knausgaard

On Ricardo Piglia and His Alter Ego, Emilio Renzi

By Ilan Stavans | November 14, 2017

What We Can Learn From Multiple Translations of the Same Poem

What We Can Learn From Multiple Translations of the Same Poem

And How It Brings Us Closer to the Experience of Reading the Original

By Martha Collins | November 13, 2017

Literature Without Writing: A Survey of Texts That Aren't Texts

Literature Without Writing: A Survey of Texts That Aren't Texts

Ross Simonini on Speech, Language, and the Foundations of Storytelling

By Ross Simonini | November 13, 2017

When an Umbrella is More Than Just an Umbrella

When an Umbrella is More Than Just an Umbrella

The Potent Symbolism of Brollies, from Mary Poppins to Harry Potter

By Marion Rankine | November 10, 2017

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From Midcentury Confessional Poetry to Reality TV

By Christopher Grobe | November 9, 2017

Read Anne Sexton's Response to Her Worst-Ever Review

By Emily Temple | November 9, 2017

All the Letters I'll Never Send

By Clare Sestanovich | November 9, 2017

Seeing the Hopeful Side of Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Seeing the Hopeful Side of Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Megan Hunter Wonders What It Is We Crave About the End of the World

By Megan Hunter | November 8, 2017

How the KKK Shaped Modern Comic Book Superheroes

How the KKK Shaped Modern Comic Book Superheroes

Masked Men Who Take the Law into Their Own Hands

By Chris Gavaler | November 3, 2017

Writing Poetry Under Stalin: Samizdat and Memorization

Writing Poetry Under Stalin: Samizdat and Memorization

"Worse Than a State Indifferent to Poetry was One Obsessed With It"

By Martin Puchner | November 2, 2017

Finding Refuge in a Queer Vampire Novella

Finding Refuge in a Queer Vampire Novella

Gabrielle Bellot on the Unsung Classic That Made Her Feel Less Alone

By Gabrielle Bellot | November 1, 2017

Why Are We Obsessed with Onscreen Bloodletting?

Why Are We Obsessed with Onscreen Bloodletting?

A Brief History of Gore, Splatter, and the Art of Fake Blood

By Tyler Malone | October 31, 2017

How to Skewer a Novel: Éric Chevillard on Florian Zeller

How to Skewer a Novel: Éric Chevillard on Florian Zeller

A Legendary French Critic Weighs in on "a book to laugh at and then forget."

By Eric Chevillard | October 30, 2017

The Many Faces of Sylvia Plath

The Many Faces of Sylvia Plath

In Focusing Too Much on Her Death, We Miss Her Capacity for Life

By Kelly Marie Coyne | October 27, 2017

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