The Necessity (and Inadequacy) of Trans Self-Acceptance Narratives

The Necessity (and Inadequacy) of Trans Self-Acceptance Narratives

Isle McElroy on Torrey Peters, Veronica Esposito, and the Divide Between Being and Doing Trans

By Isle McElroy | May 18, 2021

Rejoice, for here are 20 new books coming out today.

Rejoice, for here are 20 new books coming out today.

By Katie Yee | May 18, 2021

On the Alarming Conflation of Patricia Highsmith and Tom Ripley... Encouraged by Highsmith Herself

On the Alarming Conflation of Patricia Highsmith and Tom Ripley... Encouraged by Highsmith Herself

This Week on So Many Damn Books

By So Many Damn Books | May 18, 2021

Writers, take heart: K-Pop superstars are just like you!

Writers, take heart: K-Pop superstars are just like you!

By Jonny Diamond | May 17, 2021

Symbiosis and Psychedelics: An Exploratory Conversation Between Edward St. Aubyn and Merlin Sheldrake

Symbiosis and Psychedelics: An Exploratory Conversation Between Edward St. Aubyn and Merlin Sheldrake

The Author of Double Blind and the Author of Entangled Life Talk Scientific Inquiry

By Merlin Sheldrake and Edward St. Aubyn | May 17, 2021

What Can We Still Take from Philip Larkin?

What Can We Still Take from Philip Larkin?

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | May 17, 2021

Best Reviewed
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  • Mass Mothering
  • Autobiography of Cotton
  • Good People
  • Empire of Madness: Reimagining Western Mental Health Care for Everyone
  • The Wall Dancers: Searching for Freedom and Connection on the Chinese Internet
  • Second Skin: Inside the Worlds of Fetish, Kink, and Deviant Desire

The Twisted Dream of Home Ownership in Tana French’s Novels

By Nora Caplan-Bricker | May 17, 2021

Is Fabulism the New Sincerity?

By Brenda Peynado | May 17, 2021

Layla AlAmmar: Who Gets to Dictate How a Story Is Told?

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | May 17, 2021

How We Wrote a Joint Memoir Without Sabotaging Our Relationship

How We Wrote a Joint Memoir Without Sabotaging Our Relationship

Meg Bashwiner and Joseph Fink on the Complexities of the Collaborative Process

By Meg Bashwiner and Joseph Fink | May 17, 2021

On the Best Subversive, Genre-Busting Writer You’ve Never Heard Of

On the Best Subversive, Genre-Busting Writer You’ve Never Heard Of

Tobias Carroll Rereads M. John Harrison, an Under-Recognized Master

By Tobias Carroll | May 14, 2021

Pride and Property: <br>On the Homes of Jane Austen

Pride and Property:
On the Homes of Jane Austen

Phyllis Richardson on the Manors, Rectories, and Cottages That Influenced Austen's Domestic Writing

By Phyllis Richardson | May 14, 2021

Why Are Creepy Children So Compelling?

Why Are Creepy Children So Compelling?

A. J. Gnuse on Our Misplaced Fear of the Gothic

By A. J. Gnuse | May 14, 2021

Barry Jenkins’ <em>Underground Railroad</em> is Even More Challenging Than the Novel

Barry Jenkins’ Underground Railroad is Even More Challenging Than the Novel

You Will Not Be Able to Look Away

By Emily Temple | May 14, 2021

In Praise of the Singular “They”<br> in Literary Translation

In Praise of the Singular “They”
in Literary Translation

Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler on Maintaining the Aesthetic
Character of a Text

By Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler | May 14, 2021

Olivia Laing on Writing the Global Story of Liberation

Olivia Laing on Writing the Global Story of Liberation

The Author of Everybody Discusses Power and Freedom

By Olivia Laing | May 14, 2021

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