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On the Darkness at the Heart of Jamaica Kincaid's Children's Mystery

On the Darkness at the Heart of Jamaica Kincaid's Children's Mystery

Gabrielle Bellot Considers Party

By Gabrielle Bellot | October 7, 2019

In Nazism, Joseph Roth Saw the End of Europe’s Cosmopolitan Dream

In Nazism, Joseph Roth Saw the End of Europe’s Cosmopolitan Dream

Morten Høi Jensen on the Devastation of an Idea

By Morten Høi Jensen | October 7, 2019

Crystal Hana Kim and Laura van den Berg on What It Means to 'Learn to Write'

Crystal Hana Kim and Laura van den Berg on What It Means to 'Learn to Write'

Research As a Creative Act, The Limits of First-Person Point of View, and More

By Laura van den Berg | October 7, 2019

On the Endless Parade of Literary Dead Girls

On the Endless Parade of Literary Dead Girls

"The dead girls are speaking everywhere"

By Zefyr Lisowski | October 7, 2019

The Books of Susan Sontag, Ranked

The Books of Susan Sontag, Ranked

A Fickle Superfan’s Guide to the Dark Lady of Letters

By Lisa Levy | October 4, 2019

The Anti-Colonial Vision of James Baldwin's Last Two Unfinished Works

The Anti-Colonial Vision of James Baldwin's Last Two Unfinished Works

Bill Mullen on The Welcome Table and No Papers for Muhammad

By Bill V. Mullen | October 4, 2019

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The Author Who Didn't Care to Be Remembered

By Jean-Christophe Cloutier | October 4, 2019

Acts of Recognition: On the Women Characters of Haruki Murakami

By Mieko Kawakami | October 3, 2019

Can Language Be Understood as a Spiritual Medium?

By Johanna Skibsrud | October 3, 2019

The Lives of the Editors, from Big Press to Indie

The Lives of the Editors, from Big Press to Indie

With Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 3, 2019

Sigrid Undset's Doomed Flâneuse is<br> a Cautionary Tale

Sigrid Undset's Doomed Flâneuse is
a Cautionary Tale

Lauren Elkin on Jenny, a Novel of Rome

By Lauren Elkin | October 2, 2019

On the Courage and Complexity of Olga Tokarczuk

On the Courage and Complexity of Olga Tokarczuk

Jacek Dehnel Considers the Work of the Great Polish Novelist

By Jacek Dehnel | October 2, 2019

On the Irreconcilable Temptations of Anne Carson

On the Irreconcilable Temptations of Anne Carson

Karen Solie Considers One of Canada's Great Writers,
Just in Time for Nobel Season

By Karen Solie | October 1, 2019

Ocean Vuong: The 10 Books<br> I Needed to Write My Novel

Ocean Vuong: The 10 Books
I Needed to Write My Novel

On Herman Melville, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, James Baldwin, lê thị diễm thúy, and More

By Ocean Vuong | October 1, 2019

Jeanette Winterson and Mark O'Connell on the Future of Humanity in a Tech-Dominated World

Jeanette Winterson and Mark O'Connell on the Future of Humanity in a Tech-Dominated World

"One day, maybe, a body will be like a costume, put it on, take it off."

By Literary Hub | October 1, 2019

Felicia Day on Weirdness, Writer's Block and Women With Swords

Felicia Day on Weirdness, Writer's Block and Women With Swords

5 Questions for the Best-Selling Writer of Embrace Your Weird

By Felicia Day | October 1, 2019

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