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The Price Tag of Being a Woman

The Price Tag of Being a Woman

How Rachel Cusk, Joanna Walsh & Others Depict the Demands of Femininity

By Melynda Fuller | May 17, 2017

In <em>Kintu</em>, a Look at What it Means to be Ugandan Now

In Kintu, a Look at What it Means to be Ugandan Now

How Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's novel Offers an Important Corrective

By Aaron Bady | May 15, 2017

The Political Murakami on Life in a Dark Timeline

The Political Murakami on Life in a Dark Timeline

Gabrielle Bellot on the Unreality of the Real World, Post-9/11

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 10, 2017

On the Books We Read (and Write) to Get By

On the Books We Read (and Write) to Get By

Death Shall Have No Dominion Over the Literature of Grief

By Veronica Esposito | May 9, 2017

On the Dark(er) Side of the Perpetually Dark Edward Gorey

On the Dark(er) Side of the Perpetually Dark Edward Gorey

From Wittgenstein to The Golden Girls, a Man of Varied Interests

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 3, 2017

What <em>I'd Die for You</em> Tells Us About Fitzgerald's Troubled Final Years

What I'd Die for You Tells Us About Fitzgerald's Troubled Final Years

And How he Turned Personal Tragedy into His Best Work

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Harmony Holiday on the Misrepresented Layers of the Black Experience in the West

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$55,000 for a Magazine Feature? It's Hard to Blame Him

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Brian Francis Slattery Finds a Home in the Strange and Unsettling

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Nihilism or Wonder? On the Evolution of the Alien Story

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Investigating Extraterrestrial Metaphors for Communism, Religion, Love & Art

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A Political Conversion on the Way to a Novel

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Louise Glück on Realism and Fantasy

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"The fantastic exists as hypothesis and dream."

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