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How Scary Are Ghost Stories in This Pandemic Year of Wildfires, Hurricanes, and Police Violence?

How Scary Are Ghost Stories in This Pandemic Year of Wildfires, Hurricanes, and Police Violence?

M. Dressler on What Gothic Novels and Speculative Literature Can Teach Us About Life Right Now

By M Dressler | October 30, 2020

Adaptations Within Adaptations: How the Writer Anna Kavan Ends Up in Charlie Kaufman's Latest Film

Adaptations Within Adaptations: How the Writer Anna Kavan Ends Up in Charlie Kaufman's Latest Film

Tobias Carroll on the Postmodernist Fancies of
I’m Thinking of Ending Things

By Tobias Carroll | October 30, 2020

Ghosts, Demons, and Depression: Writers and Their Many Hauntings

Ghosts, Demons, and Depression: Writers and Their Many Hauntings

Claire Cronin on the Literary Fixation on the Supernatural

By Claire Cronin | October 30, 2020

Rituals of Housekeeping, Memories of Home: On Marilynne Robinson's<br> First Novel

Rituals of Housekeeping, Memories of Home: On Marilynne Robinson's
First Novel

Madelaine Lucas Explores the Tensions Between Creative Work and Domestic Life

By Madelaine Lucas | October 29, 2020

A New, Monumental Biography Shows Sylvia Plath as a Woman of Her Time

A New, Monumental Biography Shows Sylvia Plath as a Woman of Her Time

Emily Van Duyne on Heather Clark's Red Comet

By Emily Van Duyne | October 29, 2020

The Best Dog Poems Reveal the Good and the Mischievous in Our Canine Friends

The Best Dog Poems Reveal the Good and the Mischievous in Our Canine Friends

Duncan Wu Goes Deep on a Blessed Genre

By Duncan Wu | October 29, 2020

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The Weird Underbelly of Tech Writing in Silicon Valley

By Lulu Dewey | October 29, 2020

The Book That Brought Writers' Fears and Self-Doubt
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By Literary Hub | October 29, 2020

On John Milton, the Gunpowder Plot, and the Poet Who Laughed at Purgatory

By Nicholas McDowell | October 29, 2020

David Goodwillie on the Tricky Intersection of Art and Commerce

David Goodwillie on the Tricky Intersection of Art and Commerce

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | October 29, 2020

The Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books, October Edition

The Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books, October Edition

Chronicles of neanderthal love, white supremacist hatred, blockchain chicken farms, and more

By Book Marks | October 29, 2020

What Passes For Love: On the Marriage of Leonard and Virginia Woolf

What Passes For Love: On the Marriage of Leonard and Virginia Woolf

Beth Kephart: Most Writers Could Use an In-House Editor, Business Partner, and Legacy Builder

By Beth Kephart | October 28, 2020

The Misinformation Superhighway: A Roundtable on the Rise of the Great American Conspiracy

The Misinformation Superhighway: A Roundtable on the Rise of the Great American Conspiracy

Renata Salecl, Jonathan Berman, and Tea Krulos Talk Anti-Vaxxers, QAnon, Incels and More

By Literary Hub | October 28, 2020

On Sylvia Plath's Creative Breakthrough at the Yaddo Artists' Colony

On Sylvia Plath's Creative Breakthrough at the Yaddo Artists' Colony

Good Things Happen When Writers Can Escape the World's Demands

By Heather Clark | October 28, 2020

Driving by the Lake With John Ashbery

Driving by the Lake With John Ashbery

Douglas Crase Remembers Precious Time Spent with a Great Poet

By Douglas Crase | October 28, 2020

The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies, October Edition

The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies, October Edition

Of Malcolm X, Sylvia Plath, Abraham Lincoln, and more

By Book Marks | October 28, 2020

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