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Is Joyce Carol Oates Trolling Us?

Is Joyce Carol Oates Trolling Us?

On Gaffes, Cats, and My Obsession with JCO's Twitter Feed

By Eric Thurm | October 5, 2016

To Leave Your Mother Tongue is to Love It More

To Leave Your Mother Tongue is to Love It More

Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough on Her Mother Tongue and Another

By Ewa Hryniewicz-Yarbrough | October 4, 2016

How My Grandfather Went From the Pulitzer Prize to Complete Obscurity

How My Grandfather Went From the Pulitzer Prize to Complete Obscurity

Tom Shroder on Growing Up in the Shadow of MacKinlay Kantor

By Tom Shroder | October 4, 2016

Leave Elena Ferrante Alone

Leave Elena Ferrante Alone

David L. Ulin on the Baffling Impulse to Unmask a Beloved Writer

By David L. Ulin | October 3, 2016

Ann Cleeves, Master of the Village Noir

Ann Cleeves, Master of the Village Noir

Murder Most Foul, From the Moors of Northumberland, to the Shetland Islands

By Daneet Steffens | October 3, 2016

Where the Hell Do You Start With Something as Vast as a Memoir?

Where the Hell Do You Start With Something as Vast as a Memoir?

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Helen Garner on Court, Burning Diaries, and the Violence of Love

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On Solitude, Compromise, and Publishing That First Novel

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On the Heterodox Jewishness of Clarice Lispector

On the Heterodox Jewishness of Clarice Lispector

A Writer of the Diaspora, In Search of God

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Fact-Check: Mark Greif is Not Actually Against Everything

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