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What Is So Special About Balzac's Thousands of Characters?

What Is So Special About Balzac's Thousands of Characters?

Peter Brooks on the Extraordinary Fictional Lives of the French Master

By Peter Brooks | September 23, 2020

How I Found Small Joys in My Life as a Poem Elf

How I Found Small Joys in My Life as a Poem Elf

Maggie Lane on Sly Gifts and Hidden Beauties

By Maggie Lane | September 23, 2020

Linda Kay Klein on Being a Steward of Others' Stories

Linda Kay Klein on Being a Steward of Others' Stories

In Conversation with Courtney Balestier on the WMFA Podcast

By WMFA | September 23, 2020

Lena Herzog on Reading Montaigne Through the Pandemic

Lena Herzog on Reading Montaigne Through the Pandemic

From The Quarantine Tapes Podcast with Paul Holdengräber

By The Quarantine Tapes | September 23, 2020

Amy Shearn on the Narrative Usefulness of Ghosts

Amy Shearn on the Narrative Usefulness of Ghosts

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | September 23, 2020

Vicki Laveau-Harvie on Writing Family Tragicomedy... Longhand

Vicki Laveau-Harvie on Writing Family Tragicomedy... Longhand

In Conversation with Kendra Winchester on
the Reading Women Podcast

By Reading Women | September 23, 2020

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On the Challenges of Writing About Death

By Annie Lyons | September 22, 2020

Capitalism is Killing Us (But It
Doesn't Have To)

By C.J. Polychroniou, Noam Chomsky, and Robert Pollin | September 22, 2020

Lucille Clifton Didn't Just Write Poems. She Inhabited Them.

By Tracie Morris | September 21, 2020

The Poet Who Had No Time<br> for Tragedy

The Poet Who Had No Time
for Tragedy

Dan Beachy-Quick on Anacreon the Greek's Lyrics of Drunken Love

By Dan Beachy-Quick | September 21, 2020

The Best War Narratives Go Beyond Brute Force

The Best War Narratives Go Beyond Brute Force

Kerry Greenwood on Lindy Cameron’s Redback

By Kerry Greenwood | September 21, 2020

In Vigdis Hjorth's Norway, Perfect Happiness Amounts to Complacency

In Vigdis Hjorth's Norway, Perfect Happiness Amounts to Complacency

Charlotte Barslund on "A Social Democracy Fraying at the Edges"

By Charlotte Barslund | September 21, 2020

I spoke with a friend of Robert and Mabel Williams about <em>Negroes With Guns</em> and BLM.

I spoke with a friend of Robert and Mabel Williams about Negroes With Guns and BLM.

By Aaron Robertson | September 18, 2020

Character-Building: On Past Traumas and a Future for the Stage

Character-Building: On Past Traumas and a Future for the Stage

Dan O'Brien Knows That Every Family is Unhappy in Its Own Way

By Dan O'Brien | September 18, 2020

'We're Looking at a New Cold War': A Conversation with Daniel Yergin

'We're Looking at a New Cold War': A Conversation with Daniel Yergin

Bill Cohan Speaks to the Author of The New Map

By Bill Cohan | September 18, 2020

On Creating Family in the Poetry Classroom

On Creating Family in the Poetry Classroom

Ibi Zoboi and Liza Jessie Peterson in Conversation

By Literary Hub | September 18, 2020

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