Why Are There So Many Novels About Famous Writers?

Why Are There So Many Novels About Famous Writers?

Heller McAlpin Analyzes a Recent Surge in Biographical Fiction

By Heller McAlpin | April 29, 2016

Interview with a Gatekeeper: New Directions' Declan Spring

Interview with a Gatekeeper: New Directions' Declan Spring

On the Wonderful Past, and Bright Future of James Laughlin's Legendary Press

By Kerri Arsenault | April 29, 2016

Infiltrating Literature's Secret Societies

Infiltrating Literature's Secret Societies

Tobias Carroll on Our Fascination with All-Powerful, Unseen Institutions

By Tobias Carroll | April 29, 2016

How Books Can Help Us Survive a War

How Books Can Help Us Survive a War

A Sister Tries to Read Along With a Brother on the Front Lines

By Emily Gray Tedrowe | April 28, 2016

Jim Harrison and Thomas McGuane, a Literary Friendship

Jim Harrison and Thomas McGuane, a Literary Friendship

From the Great North to the Great West to the Great American Novel

By Nick Ripatrazone | April 28, 2016

The Joys (and Perils) of Literary Tourism

The Joys (and Perils) of Literary Tourism

Laura Barnett on Seeing Another Country Through Fiction

By Laura Barnett | April 28, 2016

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How Mapping Alice Munro's Stories Helped Me As a Writer

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On the Heartbreaking Difficulty of Getting Rid of Books

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How Sylvia Plath's Rare Honors Thesis Helped Me Understand My Divided Self

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On the Poet Warsan Shire, Nobody's Little Sister

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Hamlet Was a Bro Who Didn't Even Like Sex

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Jillian Keenan Makes Much Ado About 'Nothing'

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In Praise of Remixing Shakespeare

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What Was Shakespeare's Central Philosophy?

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If <em>Jane Eyre</em> Came Out Today Would It Be Marketed As Genre?

If Jane Eyre Came Out Today Would It Be Marketed As Genre?

On Proto-Feminist and Commercial Powerhouse Charlotte Brontë

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Charlotte Brontë May Have Started the Fire, But Jean Rhys Burned Down the House

Charlotte Brontë May Have Started the Fire, But Jean Rhys Burned Down the House

Wide Sargasso Sea and The Limits of Bronte Feminism

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