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Nuns Can Party, Too: On Defying Expectations of Piety

Nuns Can Party, Too: On Defying Expectations of Piety

Alena Dillon Confronts the Stereotypes of Life in the Holy Orders

By Alena Dillon | February 10, 2020

Brilliance and Blind Spots:<br> Rereading Joan Didion in This Hard American Winter of 2020

Brilliance and Blind Spots:
Rereading Joan Didion in This Hard American Winter of 2020

Gabrielle Bellot on the Seminal Essay, "On Self-Respect"

By Gabrielle Bellot | February 7, 2020

How Detective Fiction Took Hold of Los Angeles

How Detective Fiction Took Hold of Los Angeles

Sam Wasson on the Creation of a City's Mythology

By Sam Wasson | February 7, 2020

Searching for Queerness in the Corners of History

Searching for Queerness in the Corners of History

On Jenn Shapland and "Hunting Lesbians"

By Catie Disabato | February 7, 2020

Lidia Yuknavitch on <em>Frankenstein</em>, Incarceration, and Overcoming Creative Blocks

Lidia Yuknavitch on Frankenstein, Incarceration, and Overcoming Creative Blocks

The Author of Verge on the Advice That Always Helps Her

By Literary Hub | February 6, 2020

When We Call a Book Cinematic, What Do We Really Mean?

When We Call a Book Cinematic, What Do We Really Mean?

Sarah Kozloff on the Cross-Pollination of Art Forms

By Sarah Kozloff | February 6, 2020

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Emily Nemens on Getting to the Heart of Recession-Era America in a Baseball Novel

By Christian Kiefer | February 5, 2020

The Risk, and Reward, of Turning from Memoir to Fiction

By Amy Jo Burns | February 5, 2020

Life in a Freewheeling, Buoyant Dystopia (With Baseball at Its Center)

By Mimi Lok | February 5, 2020

The 25 Best Bad Amazon Reviews of<br> <em>The Talented Mr. Ripley</em>

The 25 Best Bad Amazon Reviews of
The Talented Mr. Ripley

"OK, first of all, Ripley is a loser."

By Emily Temple | February 4, 2020

Dahlia Lithwick and Moira Donegan: What Happens When Women<br> Tell the Truth

Dahlia Lithwick and Moira Donegan: What Happens When Women
Tell the Truth

A Conversation on Brett Kavanaugh, Freud, and "Male Law"

By Literary Hub | February 4, 2020

Googling Literary Lesbians: <br>On Carson McCullers and the Erotics of Incompletion

Googling Literary Lesbians:
On Carson McCullers and the Erotics of Incompletion

Sarah Heying Asks "The Sappho Question"

By Sarah Heying | February 4, 2020

Jane Austen, Gritty Educational Reformer of the Working Class

Jane Austen, Gritty Educational Reformer of the Working Class

Janine Barchas on How the Proliferation of Penny Editions
Brought Literature to the Masses

By Janine Barchas | February 4, 2020

Capitalism Has Distorted Desire in the #MeToo Era

Capitalism Has Distorted Desire in the #MeToo Era

A Brief History of Literary Seduction

By Clement Knox | February 4, 2020

Was 'The Burning' the Hardest Story for Eudora Welty<br> To Write?

Was 'The Burning' the Hardest Story for Eudora Welty
To Write?

Disavowing the Rituals of the American Civil War

By Susan V. Donaldson | February 4, 2020

What Happens When You Treat Writing Like Acting?

What Happens When You Treat Writing Like Acting?

Dan Bevacqua on Taking a Hint from Hollywood

By Dan Bevacqua | February 4, 2020

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