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Not Everybody Loves Sebald: 5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Not Everybody Loves Sebald: 5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

John Banville on Picasso, Lauren Oyler on Sebald, Adam Hochschild on The 1619 Project, and more

By Book Marks | November 18, 2021

What Does It Mean To Be Russian? On Dostoevsky’s Early Literary Ambitions

What Does It Mean To Be Russian? On Dostoevsky’s Early Literary Ambitions

Kevin Birmingham Investigates State Censorship Under Czar Nicholas

By Kevin Birmingham | November 18, 2021

How the Greek Struggle for Liberty Became a Cause Célèbre for Romantic Writers Across Europe

How the Greek Struggle for Liberty Became a Cause Célèbre for Romantic Writers Across Europe

Mark Mazower on the Embrace of Philhellenism by Hugo, Pushkin, Stendhal, and More

By Mark Mazower | November 17, 2021

Dave Eggers on Lorrie Moore, Frankenstein’s Monster, and Corduroy the Bear

Dave Eggers on Lorrie Moore, Frankenstein’s Monster, and Corduroy the Bear

Rapid-fire Book Recs From the Author of The Every

By Book Marks | November 17, 2021

To All the Gays of Seoul: On Translating Sang Young Park

To All the Gays of Seoul: On Translating Sang Young Park

Anton Hur Considers the Importance of Feeling Fully Seen

By Anton Hur | November 17, 2021

What Does It Mean to Find Your Poetic Voice?

What Does It Mean to Find Your Poetic Voice?

Daniel Brown Shares Some Lessons Learned from Philip Larkin

By Daniel Brown | November 17, 2021

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On Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman

By David Damrosch | November 17, 2021

“I Wanted to Make the Connection and Then I Wanted to Take You to Cinnabon.” Ryka Aoki on Writing Trans Stories

By Thresholds | November 17, 2021

How Has Freud Changed the Way We Tell Our Stories?

By Lit Century | November 16, 2021

Writing About the Small Farming Life in the Shadow of Climate Change

Writing About the Small Farming Life in the Shadow of Climate Change

Patrick Laurie Finds Inspiration in the Writing of R.S. Thomas, Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes

By Patrick Laurie | November 16, 2021

Kafka Roaring With Laughter: Read the First Review of José Saramago's <em>Blindness</em>

Kafka Roaring With Laughter: Read the First Review of José Saramago's Blindness

A Classic Review of the Late Nobel Prize-Winner's Most Famous Novel

By Book Marks | November 16, 2021

Why I Had to Leave Home to Write About It

Why I Had to Leave Home to Write About It

Tyler Barton on the Path to Developing a Story

By Tyler Barton | November 16, 2021

How Misogyny and Religious Bigotry Have Influenced the Historical Portrayal of the Female Experience

How Misogyny and Religious Bigotry Have Influenced the Historical Portrayal of the Female Experience

Lucy Jago on the Creative Motivations Behind A Net for Small Fishes

By Lucy Jago | November 16, 2021

17 new books to keep your cozy reading season going strong.

17 new books to keep your cozy reading season going strong.

By Katie Yee | November 16, 2021

A Close Reading of the QAnon Shaman’s Conspiracy Manifesto

A Close Reading of the QAnon Shaman’s Conspiracy Manifesto

How RFK Jr., Naomi Wolf, and an NYU Professor Ended Up on the Same Page as QAnon Cultist Jacob Chansley

By Mark Dery | November 15, 2021

Catherine Lacey on Letting Go of the Anxiety and Responding to Current Events in Fiction

Catherine Lacey on Letting Go of the Anxiety and Responding to Current Events in Fiction

In Conversation with Paul Holdengräber on The Quarantine Tapes

By The Quarantine Tapes | November 15, 2021

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