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You Can Never Go Back: On Loving Children's Books as an Adult

You Can Never Go Back: On Loving Children's Books as an Adult

Why Visiting Old Fictional Friends is So Bittersweet

By Anya Jaremko-Greenwold | November 14, 2017

Latin America’s Answer to Karl Ove Knausgaard

Latin America’s Answer to Karl Ove Knausgaard

On Ricardo Piglia and His Alter Ego, Emilio Renzi

By Ilan Stavans | November 14, 2017

Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist Daniel Mendelsohn

Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist Daniel Mendelsohn

The author of An Odyssey on narrative structure and the beauty of nonfiction

By Emily Temple | November 14, 2017

Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist David France

Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist David France

The Author of How to Survive a Plague on the remarkable legacies of AIDS activists

By Emily Temple | November 14, 2017

What We Can Learn From Multiple Translations of the Same Poem

What We Can Learn From Multiple Translations of the Same Poem

And How It Brings Us Closer to the Experience of Reading the Original

By Martha Collins | November 13, 2017

Literature Without Writing: A Survey of Texts That Aren't Texts

Literature Without Writing: A Survey of Texts That Aren't Texts

Ross Simonini on Speech, Language, and the Foundations of Storytelling

By Ross Simonini | November 13, 2017

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Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist Kapka Kassabova

By Emily Temple | November 13, 2017

Meet Baillie Gifford Prize Finalist Mark O’Connell

By Emily Temple | November 13, 2017

When an Umbrella is More Than Just an Umbrella

By Marion Rankine | November 10, 2017

Jennifer Tseng and Idra Novey on Place, Language, and the Problem of Nostalgia

Jennifer Tseng and Idra Novey on Place, Language, and the Problem of Nostalgia

In Conversation with the Winner of the Rose Metal Press Chapbook Prize

By Literary Hub | November 10, 2017

From Midcentury Confessional Poetry to Reality TV

From Midcentury Confessional Poetry to Reality TV

How Did "Confession" Become a Dirty Word?

By Christopher Grobe | November 9, 2017

Read Anne Sexton's Response to Her Worst-Ever Review

Read Anne Sexton's Response to Her Worst-Ever Review

Esquire is my enemy as you know."">"Dickey at Esquire is my enemy as you know."

By Emily Temple | November 9, 2017

All the Letters I'll Never Send

All the Letters I'll Never Send

What Can be Learned From an Archive of Longing?

By Clare Sestanovich | November 9, 2017

Eduardo Galeano: Why I Became a Writer

Eduardo Galeano: Why I Became a Writer

The Late, Great Uruguayan Speaks of the Sea to Those Who Will Never See It

By Eduardo Galeano | November 9, 2017

Meet National Book Award Finalist Jesmyn Ward

Meet National Book Award Finalist Jesmyn Ward

The author of Sing, Unburied, Sing on Prince, Faulkner, and writing exercises

By Emily Temple | November 9, 2017

Meet National Book Award Finalist Carmen Maria Machado

Meet National Book Award Finalist Carmen Maria Machado

The author of Her Body and Other Parties tells us about her favorite stories

By Emily Temple | November 9, 2017

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