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What Counts As Standard? On Black English and Black American Sign Language

What Counts As Standard? On Black English and Black American Sign Language

Linguist John McWhorter in Conversation with Novelist and Playwright Kia Corthron

By Literary Hub | May 30, 2017

Learning the ABC's of Grad School Jargon

Learning the ABC's of Grad School Jargon

Deb Werrlein Wonders What the Hell It All It Means

By Deb Werrlein | May 30, 2017

Reading Susan Sontag in Paris

Reading Susan Sontag in Paris

Or, How to Write About a City Just as Beautiful as Everyone Says It is

By Lori Brister | May 26, 2017

Words Can Erase and Distort: An Interview with Madeleine Thien

Words Can Erase and Distort: An Interview with Madeleine Thien

When language is in conflict with the very things we need it for

By David Chariandy | May 26, 2017

All Writing is a Kind of Realism

All Writing is a Kind of Realism

In Conversation with Rodrigo Fresán, author of The Invented Part

By Literary Hub | May 26, 2017

"Poultry?" No, Poetry. On Moving From Verse to Memoir

Chris Forhan on Working in the Slow Idle of Prose After Racing With Poetry

By Chris Forhan | May 25, 2017

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On the Autofiction of Conrad Aiken, Unsung American Modernist

By Conor Higgins | May 25, 2017

Jamaica Kincaid on How to Live and How to Write

By Emily Temple | May 25, 2017

Virginia Woolf: There Are Way Too Many Personal Essays Out There

By Lorraine Berry | May 24, 2017

In a 12th-Century Iranian Poem, a Vision of Solidarity We Need Today

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What We Can Learn from The Conference of the Birds

By Theodore McCombs | May 24, 2017

Vera Pavlova Writes Poems to Be Read By the Light of a Single Match

Vera Pavlova Writes Poems to Be Read By the Light of a Single Match

Poets on Their Craft and Writing Lives

By Peter Mishler | May 24, 2017

A Crash Course in YA Taught Me How To Write

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We Need the Lives of Others Now More Than Ever

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On Bias, Clickbait, and the Future of Journalism

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By Emily Temple | May 22, 2017

Edan Lepucki on Dick Pics, California, and Motherhood

Edan Lepucki on Dick Pics, California, and Motherhood

The Author of Woman No. 17, in Conversation with Bethanne Patrick

By Bethanne Patrick | May 22, 2017

7 Questions for Ian Buruma, New Editor of <em>the New York Review of Books</em>

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"Go somewhere, physically or mentally, where others have not been"

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