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Why Literature Loves Lists

Why Literature Loves Lists

From Rabelais to Didion, an Incomplete List of Listmakers

By Brian Dillon | September 14, 2018

The Time a Bitter Rival Stole a Manuscript From William H. Gass

The Time a Bitter Rival Stole a Manuscript From William H. Gass

Never Trust a Man Named 'Edward Drogo Mork'

By Nick Ripatrazone | September 13, 2018

Surviving Modern Times: Meditation Through Status Updates

Surviving Modern Times: Meditation Through Status Updates

Matthew Vollmer on Life in the Upside Down

By Matthew Vollmer | September 13, 2018

How <em>The Left Hand of Darkness</em> Changed Everything

How The Left Hand of Darkness Changed Everything

Ursula K. Le Guin's Classic Has Always Been as Relevant as it is Right Now

By Becky Chambers | September 10, 2018

Toward a Trans Literature of the Everyday

Toward a Trans Literature of the Everyday

Veronica Esposito on Writing by Gabriela Weiner, Arlene Stein, and Casey Plett

By Veronica Esposito | September 10, 2018

Getting Inside the Mind of a Plagiarist

Getting Inside the Mind of a Plagiarist

Kevin Young Goes Deep Into the World of American Hoaxes

By Kevin Young | September 5, 2018

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By Nathan Goldman | September 4, 2018

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By S. K. Perry | August 23, 2018

The Art of the Late Bloomer

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On the 18th-Century Artist Mary Delany and the Power of Second Acts

By Corinne Purtill | August 22, 2018

The Time I Went Fishing with Barry Hannah

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William Giraldi in Praise of the "Rebel of the English Language"

By William Giraldi | August 20, 2018

Making the Case for the Surreal Memoir

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Pushing the Limits of Form, from Leonora Carrington to Wendy C. Ortiz

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Why Don't More Boys Read <em>Little Women</em>?

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On the Slyly Subversive Writing of E.M. Forster

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If a Happy Ending Required Marriage, Forster Was All for Pessimism

By Wendy Moffat | August 16, 2018

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is the Best Place on the Internet

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is the Best Place on the Internet

Self-Referential, Argumentative, and Never Dispassionate

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Gabrielle Bellot: On the Enigma of V.S. Naipaul

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