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An English Teacher Wonders: What is Literature Anyway?

An English Teacher Wonders: What is Literature Anyway?

"I frequently found myself questioning the very base of what I do."

By Christopher Schaberg | July 26, 2018

How I Wrote My Memoir, One Notecard at a Time

How I Wrote My Memoir, One Notecard at a Time

Or: How to Fit Your Trauma in a Recipe Box

By Melissa Stephenson | July 26, 2018

Poet John Yau on Seeing What Cannot Be Seen

Poet John Yau on Seeing What Cannot Be Seen

A Conversation with Anselm Berrigan About Poetry, Art, Film, and More

By Anselm Berrigan | July 26, 2018

A Close Reading of the Best Short Story Ever Written

A Close Reading of the Best Short Story Ever Written

From Your Resident Donald Barthelme Stan

By Emily Temple | July 25, 2018

What is the Morally Appropriate Language in Which to Think and Write?

What is the Morally Appropriate Language in Which to Think and Write?

Arundhati Roy on the Complex, Shifting Politics of Language and Translation in India

By Arundhati Roy | July 25, 2018

From Apartment to Bryant Park: A Poetry Salon Grows Up

From Apartment to Bryant Park: A Poetry Salon Grows Up

Poet JP Howard Creates Community for Women Writers

By Joshunda Sanders | July 25, 2018

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Edy Poppy Talks Sex, Love, and Boredom with Siri Hustvedt

By Literary Hub | July 25, 2018

Looking for Paris's Old Left Bank in the Footsteps of Simone de Beauvoir

By Marta Bausells | July 24, 2018

Once Upon a Time in New York: A Sublet of One's Own

By Andrea Kleine | July 23, 2018

In Praise of

In Praise of "Plain" Heroines: Why Mary is my Favorite Bennet Sister

She May Be Bookish, But She's Not Quiet

By Katherine J. Chen | July 23, 2018

Everything You Think You Know About Chekhov is Wrong

Everything You Think You Know About Chekhov is Wrong

Boris Fishman Wonders, What Would Chekhov Say of Vladimir Putin?

By Boris Fishman | July 23, 2018

What Does It Mean To Be A Doctor and a Writer?

What Does It Mean To Be A Doctor and a Writer?

Four Physician-Writers on Their Craft

By Literary Hub | July 23, 2018

Fake News, Hyper-Patriotism, and War: America in 1918

Fake News, Hyper-Patriotism, and War: America in 1918

Katherine Anne Porter's Pale Horse, Pale Rider, a Novel of Now

By John Domini | July 23, 2018

Working With a Photographer Taught Me to See Writing Differently

Working With a Photographer Taught Me to See Writing Differently

"I Began to Appreciate Just How Visual the World Out There Was"

By John Lingan | July 20, 2018

The Loneliness of Long-Distance Writing

The Loneliness of Long-Distance Writing

One Foot After the Other, One Word Follows the Next

By Nick Ripatrazone | July 20, 2018

On the Art and Influence of Hemingway’s Short Stories

On the Art and Influence of Hemingway’s Short Stories

Looking Past the Biography, at the Sentences Themselves

By John Mariani | July 20, 2018

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