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Emily Greenhouse on the Whole Self

Emily Greenhouse on the Whole Self

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | January 28, 2025

“Anarchism Means That You Should Be Free.” On the Literature of Liberation

“Anarchism Means That You Should Be Free.” On the Literature of Liberation

Ed Simon Considers the Life Alexander Berkman, Anarchist, Would-Be Assassin, and 19th-Century Luigi Mangione

By Ed Simon | January 27, 2025

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Edith Wharton and the Clarifying Rage of the Menopausal Writer

Edith Wharton and the Clarifying Rage of the Menopausal Writer

Deborah Williams on Undine Spragg, Miranda July, and “Women of a Certain Age”

By Deborah Williams | January 24, 2025

A Self-Made Myth: How Edith Wharton Rewrote Her Own Childhood

A Self-Made Myth: How Edith Wharton Rewrote Her Own Childhood

Constance Roisin on the Author’s Construction of Herself in Fiction and in Life

By Constance Roisin | January 24, 2025

Ugh, I’m in My Friend’s Autofiction and I Hate It: Am I the Literary Asshole?

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Betty Shamieh on the Next Generation of Palestinian Fiction

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By Betty Samieh | January 22, 2025

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Eman Quotah Considers the Inability of Language to Convey the Horror of Genocide and Attempted Erasure

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Sara Sligar on Modernizing an 18th-Century Literary Cult Classic

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Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of “Vantage Point”

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Chasing Mystery Through Fiction: <br>On the Life and Literary Career of Mavis Gallant

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Finding the Wild Girls of Literature (and Following Them Into the Woods)

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