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The Suicide Note as Literary Genre

The Suicide Note as Literary Genre

On the Last Words of Woolf, Koestler, Berryman, and More

By Dustin Illingworth | March 23, 2016

How to Be a Whaler's Wife in 1908: Boil Everything, Wash the Clothes in Gin

How to Be a Whaler's Wife in 1908: Boil Everything, Wash the Clothes in Gin

Shirley Barrett Goes Deep into the Domestic Research

By Shirley Barrett | March 23, 2016

Secrets and Lies: Why the Best Spies Are Married

Secrets and Lies: Why the Best Spies Are Married

On Chris Pavone's Finely Wrought Espionage Fiction

By Lisa Levy | March 22, 2016

Why We Love Weird Fairy Tales

Why We Love Weird Fairy Tales

From the Tale of Tales to Michael Cunningham to Helen Oyeyemi...

By Tobias Carroll | March 17, 2016

Adrian McKinty: Working-Class Hero of Irish Crime Fiction

Adrian McKinty: Working-Class Hero of Irish Crime Fiction

Lisa Levy Profiles the Man Behind the Sean Duffy Series

By Lisa Levy | March 17, 2016

This Writer: On Social Work and Fiction

This Writer: On Social Work and Fiction

"The work has to leave me, and I have to be able to let it go"

By Rosalie Knecht | March 15, 2016

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The Beautiful, Proto-Feminist Snark of Jane Austen’s Juvenilia

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74,000 words of raucous, handwritten amorality

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A Highly Subjective and Idiosyncratic List Created Upon Moving House

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Michel de Montaigne, Time Traveler

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The Fine Grim Line Between Love and Stalking

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When Art Cannot Console Us in Death

When Art Cannot Console Us in Death

Emily Harnett on the Hard Art of the Death Memoir

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30 Books in 30 Days: Carmela Ciuraru on Colm Tóibín’s <em>On Elizabeth Bishop</em>

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