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Huckleberry Kat: How Mark Twain Influenced George Herriman

Huckleberry Kat: How Mark Twain Influenced George Herriman

The Secret Resonances Between Krazy Kat and Huckleberry Finn

By Michael Tisserand | June 6, 2017

Revisiting Jenny Diski's Debut, Sadomasochistic Novel

Revisiting Jenny Diski's Debut, Sadomasochistic Novel

On Nothing Natural and the Literature of Sexual Submission

By Daphne Merkin | June 5, 2017

My Fictional Nemesis: Why Thomas Hardy's Angel Clare is the <em>Worst</em>

My Fictional Nemesis: Why Thomas Hardy's Angel Clare is the Worst

Against Fraudulent Nice Guys and Fake Woke Baes

By Rachel Vorona Cote | June 2, 2017

Separating Truth from Lies in the Face of Atrocity

Separating Truth from Lies in the Face of Atrocity

What, after all, is a truly verifiable or “authentic” image?

By Johanna Skibsrud | June 2, 2017

Franz Kafka, the Ultimate Self-Doubting Writer

Franz Kafka, the Ultimate Self-Doubting Writer

On the Emotional Resonance of Kafka's Diaries

By John Sherman | June 2, 2017

The Queer Literary Origins of Wonder Woman

The Queer Literary Origins of Wonder Woman

From Homer and Sappho to Charlotte Perkins Gilman

By Gabrielle Bellot | June 1, 2017

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Chris Kraus on Why You Should Read Eileen Myles's First Novel

By Chris Kraus | May 31, 2017

I Found My Family in <em>Jesus' Son</em>

I Found My Family in Jesus' Son

James Boice on One of the Most Influential Books of the Latest 50 Years

By James Boice | May 31, 2017

On the Autofiction of Conrad Aiken, Unsung American Modernist

On the Autofiction of Conrad Aiken, Unsung American Modernist

On Freud, Language, and the Topography of Consciousness

By Conor Higgins | May 25, 2017

Virginia Woolf: There Are Way Too Many Personal Essays Out There

Virginia Woolf: There Are Way Too Many Personal Essays Out There

Just Because You Can Write it, Doesn’t Mean You Have to Publish It

By Lorraine Berry | May 24, 2017

In a 12th-Century Iranian Poem, a Vision of Solidarity We Need Today

In a 12th-Century Iranian Poem, a Vision of Solidarity We Need Today

What We Can Learn from The Conference of the Birds

By Theodore McCombs | May 24, 2017

We Need the Lives of Others Now More Than Ever

We Need the Lives of Others Now More Than Ever

On the Expansive Reading and Insights of Tony Judt

By Veronica Esposito | May 23, 2017

The Wisdom of Sendak: Children Are Wild, Honest, Immoral Beings

The Wisdom of Sendak: Children Are Wild, Honest, Immoral Beings

On the Weird Kingdoms and Kinship of Maurice Sendak and Ralph Eugene Meatyard

By Buzz Poole | May 22, 2017

Americans in Search of Utopia

Americans in Search of Utopia

19th-Century Experiments in Perfection

By Betsy Hartmann | May 22, 2017

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