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Why is it So Difficult to Define the Essay?
Or, How to Use Knowledge Ethically
By
Nicole B. Wallack
| June 28, 2017
Systemic Cruelty, Mass Sadism, and Reading "The Lottery" in 2017
Shirley Jackson's Classic Fable is Always Relevant to America
By
Emily Temple
| June 27, 2017
If a Bear Shows Up in the First Act, He Better Eat Someone in the Second
Tom Bouman on the Use of Man-Eating Bears in Fiction
By
Tom Bouman
| June 27, 2017
Alexandra Fuller: Fairy Tales on the Frontlines (and Other Books)
The Author of
Quiet Until the Thaw
on the Books in Her Life
By
Alexandra Fuller
| June 27, 2017
Was
Jane Eyre
Written as a Secret Love Letter?
An Autobiography Transformed Into a Novel
By
John Pfordresher
| June 26, 2017
Naomi Klein: People Are Ready to Vote
For
Something, Not Just Against It
On the Success of Jeremy Corbyn and the Failings of the Democratic Party
By
Christopher Lydon
| June 26, 2017
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When a Lifelong Editor Becomes a Novelist
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Karen Rinaldi
| June 23, 2017
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Natalka Burian
| June 23, 2017
Exiled from Manhood: On Queer Writing and the Midwest
By
Cade Mason
| June 23, 2017
10 Famous Book Hoarders
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By
Emily Temple
| June 22, 2017
Victor LaValle: Five Books in My Life
From Shirley Jackson and Jean Rhys, to Child-Killing Clowns
By
Literary Hub
| June 22, 2017
A Tourist in My Own Book
A Midwesterner Writes the Caribbean
By
Rebecca Entel
| June 22, 2017
On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf
A Close Reading of the Opening Lines to an Iconic Essay, 'On Being Ill'
By
Brian Dillon
| June 21, 2017
Lunch with Beckett, Drinks with Genet, and a Lifelong Love of Books
Jeanette and Richard Seaver, a Life in Publishing
By
John J. Healey
| June 21, 2017
Jill Eisenstadt and Darcey Steinke on Writing, Motherhood, and Brooklyn
The Author of
Swell
in Conversation with an Old Friend...
By
Literary Hub
| June 21, 2017
To Catch the Conscience of the President: On the Power of Theater
How We Retell our Stories, From Shakespeare to Beckett to Anne Washburn
By
Veronica Esposito
| June 20, 2017
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Brian Raftery on Hannibal Lecter, Thomas Harris, and America's Serial Killer Fixation
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"This is informed accessible literary analysis that demonstrates that Morrison s true genius was as…"