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The Scariest, Creepiest, and Most Frightening Animals in Fiction

The Scariest, Creepiest, and Most Frightening Animals in Fiction

Justin C. Key Finds the Best (or Worst?) in Horror

By Justin C Key | October 31, 2023

Something Is Rotten in Horror’s Use of Pedagogy

Something Is Rotten in Horror’s Use of Pedagogy

Tyler Malone on the Canker in the Classroom

By Tyler Malone | October 31, 2023

A Master Class in Words: On the Vitality and Vividness of <em>The Iliad</em>'s Opening Lines

A Master Class in Words: On the Vitality and Vividness of The Iliad's Opening Lines

Robin Lane Fox Considers the Movement of Homer's Epic

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America's First Man of Letters: Washington Irving

America's First Man of Letters: Washington Irving

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October's Best Reviewed Nonfiction

October's Best Reviewed Nonfiction

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By Book Marks | October 27, 2023

October's Best Reviewed Fiction

October's Best Reviewed Fiction

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Molly McGhee on the Importance of Acknowledgments

By The Maris Review | October 26, 2023

Jonathan Lethem on the Depths of Gentrification

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 26, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | October 26, 2023

Christopher Kennedy on Defining Prose Poetry and Working-Class Stories

Christopher Kennedy on Defining Prose Poetry and Working-Class Stories

Peter Mishler Talks to the Author of The Strange God Who Makes Us

By Peter Mishler | October 25, 2023

Nonfiction That Rivals <em>Little Women</em>: The Forgotten Essays of Louisa May Alcott

Nonfiction That Rivals Little Women: The Forgotten Essays of Louisa May Alcott

Liz Rosenberg on the Literary Marvels of Alcott's Memoirs

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Why It Matters How We Tell the Story of Sinead O'Connor

Why It Matters How We Tell the Story of Sinead O'Connor

Allyson McCabe on the Power of Accepting that a Memoir May Contain Contradictions

By Allyson McCabe | October 23, 2023

Erin Sharkey on the Black Experience of Nature

Erin Sharkey on the Black Experience of Nature

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Writing Sex in Arabic Literature: Ahmed Naji Narrates His Own Obscenity Trial

Writing Sex in Arabic Literature: Ahmed Naji Narrates His Own Obscenity Trial

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By Ahmed Naji | October 19, 2023

John Freeman and Omar El Akkad on a Literary Magazine’s Final Issue

John Freeman and Omar El Akkad on a Literary Magazine’s Final Issue

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By Fiction Non Fiction | October 19, 2023

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