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What Poetry Can Teach Us About Power

What Poetry Can Teach Us About Power

Political Poems Use Language in a Way Distinct from Rhetoric

By Matthew Zapruder | August 16, 2017

What Does it Mean When We Call a Key a

What Does it Mean When We Call a Key a "Slave"?

On the Power and Responsibility of Metaphor

By Peggy Shinner | August 14, 2017

The Useful Dangers of Fairy Tales

The Useful Dangers of Fairy Tales

Because Sometimes the Wolf Shows Up Uninvited

By Amber Sparks | August 11, 2017

On Nanni Balestrini, the Most Radically Formalist Poet of the Italian Scene

On Nanni Balestrini, the Most Radically Formalist Poet of the Italian Scene

Both a Literary witness in the Theater of Conflict and an Actor on the Stage

By Franco “Bifo” Berardi | August 11, 2017

How Much of Einstein's Theory of Relativity is in the Writing of Virginia Woolf?

How Much of Einstein's Theory of Relativity is in the Writing of Virginia Woolf?

Gabrielle Bellot on the Bloomsbury Writer's Fixation on Contemporary Science

By Gabrielle Bellot | August 10, 2017

Toward a New Climate Change Genre: First Impact Fiction

Toward a New Climate Change Genre: First Impact Fiction

Ashley Shelby: The Apocalypse is Now

By Ashley Shelby | August 9, 2017

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Rereading Mrs. Dalloway at the Same Age as Mrs. Dalloway

By Carole Burns | August 3, 2017

There's No Such Thing As Historical Fiction

By Paul Lynch | July 26, 2017

The Radical Potential of Queer Road Novels

By Allison Gallagher | July 25, 2017

How a Book About Grover Revealed to Me the Wide World of Literature

How a Book About Grover Revealed to Me the Wide World of Literature

From Joyce to Kafka to The Monster at the End of the Book

By David Burr Gerrard | July 18, 2017

Jane Austen's Most Widely Mocked Character is Also Her Most Subversive

Jane Austen's Most Widely Mocked Character is Also Her Most Subversive

In Defense of Pride and Prejudice's Mrs. Bennet

By Rachel Dunphy | July 18, 2017

A Woman Alone in London: On the Literature of Solitude

A Woman Alone in London: On the Literature of Solitude

"A Solitary Life is No Less Liberated Than One That is Lived More Publicly"

By Lucy Scholes | July 17, 2017

Bill McKibben: Thoreau Suggests You Put Down Your Smartphone

Bill McKibben: Thoreau Suggests You Put Down Your Smartphone

On the Foresight and Ongoing Relevance of a Great American Thinker

By Bill McKibben | July 12, 2017

Who Cares What Straight People Think?

Who Cares What Straight People Think?

Brandon Taylor on the Uncertain State of Queer Narratives

By Brandon Taylor | July 11, 2017

Who Will Tell the Tales of American Fascism?

Who Will Tell the Tales of American Fascism?

On the Truth-Telling of Roberto Bolaño

By Veronica Esposito | July 11, 2017

Why Are We So Unwilling to Take Sylvia Plath at Her Word?

Why Are We So Unwilling to Take Sylvia Plath at Her Word?

New Letters Alleging Abuse are Only Shocking if You Haven't Been Listening

By Emily Van Duyne | July 11, 2017

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