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The Anti-Capitalist Power of Jean de La Ville de Mirmont's Fiction

The Anti-Capitalist Power of Jean de La Ville de Mirmont's Fiction

André Naffis-Sahely on His New Translation of a Long-Neglected Existentialist Novella

By André Naffis-Sahely | June 21, 2019

The Poet and the Monk: <br>An Anne Sexton Love Story

The Poet and the Monk:
An Anne Sexton Love Story

The Love Affair That Started with a Fan Letter

By Nick Ripatrazone | June 20, 2019

50 of the Best One-Star Reviews of <em>The Picture of Dorian Gray</em>

50 of the Best One-Star Reviews of The Picture of Dorian Gray

"Pretentious, pedestrian, predictable, and pedantic."

By Emily Temple | June 20, 2019

The Writer Antonia Pont vs. Envy

The Writer Antonia Pont vs. Envy

An Examination of Envy, Jealousy, and What They Add to Our Lives

By Antonia Pont | June 20, 2019

"The Stonewall Revolution is Still Happening"

Views of Stonewall from Rita Mae Brown, Cheryl Clarke, Alexis De Veaux,
Max Wolf Valerio, and Adrian Brooks

By Corinne Segal | June 19, 2019

"Perhaps We're Being Dense." Rejection Letters Sent to Famous Writers

Some Kind, Some Weird, Some Unbelievably Harsh

By Emily Temple | June 19, 2019

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  • Bad Bad Girl
  • 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

On Kathy Acker: A Desk, A Disease, An Accounting

By Teresa Rose Carmody | June 19, 2019

What My Writing Nemesis Taught Me About Myself

By Jen Corrigan | June 18, 2019

How the Adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird Failed Scout Finch

By Rebecca Renner | June 18, 2019

What Anne Sexton Taught Me About... Self-Promotion

What Anne Sexton Taught Me About... Self-Promotion

Joy Lanzendorfer on Balancing Social Anxiety and the Need for Writerly Networking

By Joy Lanzendorfer | June 18, 2019

"Franz Kafka" the Brand, Alive and Well in Prague

The Kafkaesque Feeling of Seeing Kafka as a Tourist Attraction

By Renee Lynn Reizman | June 18, 2019

How a New Generation of Nigerian Writers Is Salvaging Tradition from Colonial Erasure

How a New Generation of Nigerian Writers Is Salvaging Tradition from Colonial Erasure

“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”

By Nnamdi Ehirim | June 18, 2019

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20 "Perfect Summer Books" for This and Every Year

If Every Kind of Book is Perfect for Summer, Are Any of Them?

By Emily Temple | June 17, 2019

Learning of My Father's Suicide From My Grandmother's Poetry

Learning of My Father's Suicide From My Grandmother's Poetry

John James on the Hard Work of Acknowledging Terrible Truths

By John James | June 14, 2019

How to Eulogize an Animal

How to Eulogize an Animal

Gabrielle Bellot on Pablo Neruda, Virginia Woolf, and Saying Goodbye to Dead Pets

By Gabrielle Bellot | June 12, 2019

A Very Honest Account of Life with Pablo Picasso

A Very Honest Account of Life with Pablo Picasso

On Françoise Gilot's Classic Memoir of Time with a "Great Man"

By Jaime Fuller | June 11, 2019

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