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Yiyun Li on the Master, Colm Tóibín

Yiyun Li on the Master, Colm Tóibín

From Her Speech at The National Arts Club

By Yiyun Li | July 17, 2024

Empowering Eerieness: How Gothic Romances Helped Alisa Alering Escape the Misery of a Small Town

Empowering Eerieness: How Gothic Romances Helped Alisa Alering Escape the Misery of a Small Town

The Author of “Smothermoss” on Victoria Holt, the Gothic Formula, and Loneliness in Life and Lit

By Alisa Alering | July 17, 2024

How Judy Blume’s <em>Deenie</em> Helped Destigmatize Masturbation

How Judy Blume’s Deenie Helped Destigmatize Masturbation

Rachelle Bergstein on Self-Pleasure and Sex Education in Children's Literature

By Rachelle Bergstein | July 16, 2024

What the <em>New York Times</em> Missed: <br>71 More of the Best Books of the 21st Century

What the New York Times Missed:
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Crooked Parallels: On Alice Munro, Andrea Skinner, and My Mother’s Failure to Protect Me

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“I Refused to Be a War Bride.” Or, Why I Set My Novels in Nova Scotia

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Phil Elwood on Doing PR for All the Worst Humans

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A Painful, Urgent Reimagining: Emily van Duyne on Writing a New History of Sylvia Plath’s Last Years

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Jan Carson on Capturing the Failures of Northern Ireland in Fiction

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