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A Shipwrecked Mother Tongue: On Confronting Linguistic Dispossession

A Shipwrecked Mother Tongue: On Confronting Linguistic Dispossession

Claudio Lomnitz Examines Inherited Languages and Family Histories

By Claudio Lomnitz | March 1, 2021

On the Brief Life and Towering Accomplishments of Lorraine Hansberry

On the Brief Life and Towering Accomplishments of Lorraine Hansberry

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | March 1, 2021

When Fiction Bears Witness to a Crime Against Humanity

When Fiction Bears Witness to a Crime Against Humanity

Kim Echlin on Telling Stories of the Unthinkable

By Kim Echlin | March 1, 2021

When a Young Literary Star Refuses the Spotlight

When a Young Literary Star Refuses the Spotlight

Simon Leser on the Curious Case of Joseph Andras

By Simon Leser | February 26, 2021

The Best Nightmarish Fiction: <br>A Reading List

The Best Nightmarish Fiction:
A Reading List

Angela Buck Recommends Lydia Davis, Shirley Jackson, and More

By Angela Buck | February 26, 2021

Dantiel W. Moniz on Writing Stories That Are Felt in the Body

Dantiel W. Moniz on Writing Stories That Are Felt in the Body

In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast

By The Literary Life | February 26, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

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  • The Ten Year Affair
  • Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
  • Motherland: A Feminist History of Modern Russia, from Revolution to Autocracy
  • Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution

A Star is Born: Tracing the Rise and Fall of a Jewish Immigrant Turned Realist Author

By Catherine Rottenberg | February 26, 2021

The (Semi-Hidden) History of Queer Pregnancy in Literature

By Alicia Andrzejewski | February 26, 2021

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Dragons, The Giant, The Women by Wayétu Moore

By Marion Winik | February 26, 2021

The Dark World of <br>Rapture Fiction

The Dark World of
Rapture Fiction

William J. Bernstein on a Troubled Evangelical Genre

By William J. Bernstein | February 25, 2021

Joy Harjo on the Poetic Lyricism and Subversive Native Storytelling of James Welch

Joy Harjo on the Poetic Lyricism and Subversive Native Storytelling of James Welch

In Praise of the 1974 Novel Winter in the Blood

By Joy Harjo | February 25, 2021

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>Imperial Liquor</em> by Amaud Jamaul Johnson

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Imperial Liquor by Amaud Jamaul Johnson

Stephanie Burt on One of the Finalists for Poetry

By Stephanie Burt | February 25, 2021

Patricia Lockwood: ‘I Like to Give People a Very Vertiginous Whiplash’

Patricia Lockwood: ‘I Like to Give People a Very Vertiginous Whiplash’

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | February 25, 2021

I think about this tiny detail from <em>The Talented Mr. Ripley</em> all the time.

I think about this tiny detail from The Talented Mr. Ripley all the time.

By Emily Temple | February 24, 2021

Beatifying Patricia Lockwood: “I Worry That She Hasn’t Had Enough Fun.”

Beatifying Patricia Lockwood: “I Worry That She Hasn’t Had Enough Fun.”

Mary Gordon Tries to Understand Literary Hagiography

By Mary Gordon | February 24, 2021

How Many of the 100 Most Famous Passages in Literature Can You Identify?

How Many of the 100 Most Famous Passages in Literature Can You Identify?

Winner Gets a Prize*

By Emily Temple | February 24, 2021

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