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Do Motives Matter When It Comes to Movie Horror?

Do Motives Matter When It Comes to Movie Horror?

Tyler Malone on Psycho, Michael Myers, and Psychologism in Cinematic Horror

By Tyler Malone | October 29, 2021

How Horror Mirrors the Irrevocability of Grief

How Horror Mirrors the Irrevocability of Grief

Gus Moreno on the Power of Sitting in Dread

By Gus Moreno | October 29, 2021

Ghostly Taboos: Superstitious Rules and Gendered Restrictions

Ghostly Taboos: Superstitious Rules and Gendered Restrictions

How Researching the Forbidden Shaped The Themes of My Novel

By Aimee Parkison | October 29, 2021

Tananarive Due on Reinventing Black Horror

Tananarive Due on Reinventing Black Horror

In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast

By The Literary Life | October 29, 2021

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Month

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Month

Featuring New Titles by Jonathan Franzen, Elizabeth Strout, John le Carré, Rebecca Solnit, David Sedaris, and More

By Book Marks | October 29, 2021

What Therapists Are Reading to Get Through the Many Crises of the Moment

What Therapists Are Reading to Get Through the Many Crises of the Moment

Chaya Bhuvaneswar on How Books Sustain Mental Health Professionals

By Chaya Bhuvaneswar | October 29, 2021

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Rhys Bowen on Writing Her Version of a Dark Novel

By New Books Network | October 29, 2021

How the Everyday Becomes Mythic Through Fiction

By Andrew Siegrist | October 29, 2021

Victoria Chang on the Real Questions that Power Stories

By Victoria Chang | October 29, 2021

Miriam Toews on the Rebellion of Exuberance

Miriam Toews on the Rebellion of Exuberance

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | October 28, 2021

The Call is Coming From Inside the House: On Fighting Disinformation

The Call is Coming From Inside the House: On Fighting Disinformation

Nina Jankowicz Recommends Books to Help Us Battle Fake News

By Nina Jankowicz | October 28, 2021

Breaking Through the Self-Mythologizing of the Male Artist as a Woman Biographer

Breaking Through the Self-Mythologizing of the Male Artist as a Woman Biographer

Gabrielle Selz on Sam Francis and the Boy’s Club of the Art World

By Gabrielle Selz | October 28, 2021

Here are October’s Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books

Here are October’s Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books

George Orwell’s Roses, Jane Goodall’s Chimps, Rowan Jacobsen’s Truffle Hounds, and More

By Book Marks | October 28, 2021

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

On New Works by Gary Shteyngart, Mary Gaitskill, Paul Auster, and more

By Book Marks | October 28, 2021

Why is Baseball the Most Literary of Sports?

Why is Baseball the Most Literary of Sports?

Lincoln Michel Goes Deep Into the Prose of America’s Pastime

By Lincoln Michel | October 28, 2021

What’s Missing Here? A Fragmentary, Lyric Essay About Fragmentary, Lyric Essays

What’s Missing Here? A Fragmentary, Lyric Essay About Fragmentary, Lyric Essays

Julie Marie Wade on the Mode That Never Quite Feels Finished

By Julie Marie Wade | October 28, 2021

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