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From Midcentury Confessional Poetry to Reality TV

From Midcentury Confessional Poetry to Reality TV

How Did "Confession" Become a Dirty Word?

By Christopher Grobe | November 9, 2017

Read Anne Sexton's Response to Her Worst-Ever Review

Read Anne Sexton's Response to Her Worst-Ever Review

Esquire is my enemy as you know."">"Dickey at Esquire is my enemy as you know."

By Emily Temple | November 9, 2017

All the Letters I'll Never Send

All the Letters I'll Never Send

What Can be Learned From an Archive of Longing?

By Clare Sestanovich | November 9, 2017

Seeing the Hopeful Side of Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Seeing the Hopeful Side of Post-Apocalyptic Fiction

Megan Hunter Wonders What It Is We Crave About the End of the World

By Megan Hunter | November 8, 2017

How the KKK Shaped Modern Comic Book Superheroes

How the KKK Shaped Modern Comic Book Superheroes

Masked Men Who Take the Law into Their Own Hands

By Chris Gavaler | November 3, 2017

Writing Poetry Under Stalin: Samizdat and Memorization

Writing Poetry Under Stalin: Samizdat and Memorization

"Worse Than a State Indifferent to Poetry was One Obsessed With It"

By Martin Puchner | November 2, 2017

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Finding Refuge in a Queer Vampire Novella

By Gabrielle Bellot | November 1, 2017

Why Are We Obsessed with Onscreen Bloodletting?

By Tyler Malone | October 31, 2017

How to Skewer a Novel: Éric Chevillard on Florian Zeller

By Eric Chevillard | October 30, 2017

The Many Faces of Sylvia Plath

The Many Faces of Sylvia Plath

In Focusing Too Much on Her Death, We Miss Her Capacity for Life

By Kelly Marie Coyne | October 27, 2017

Jean Rhys Had to Leave Her Home to Truly See It

Jean Rhys Had to Leave Her Home to Truly See It

Gabrielle Bellot on Exile, Otherness, and the Isolation of
a Great 20th-Century Writer

By Gabrielle Bellot | October 26, 2017

First-Person Stories of the Body Are Much More Than Clickbait

First-Person Stories of the Body Are Much More Than Clickbait

In Praise of Narrative Medicine

By M. Sophia Newman | October 26, 2017

How Kate Tempest Makes

How Kate Tempest Makes "Radical Empathy" More than Just a Buzzword

Her Genre-Defying Works Place Us Directly in the Heads of Others

By Eleanor Stanford | October 24, 2017

Currybooks: On Authenticity and Our Expectations of South Asian Writers

Currybooks: On Authenticity and Our Expectations of South Asian Writers

Diasporic Writers Have to Play Both Tourist and Tour Guide

By Naben Ruthnum | October 23, 2017

How the Oldest Stories Can Give Us the Best Perspective

How the Oldest Stories Can Give Us the Best Perspective

On War, Troy, and the Slow Time of Classic Literature

By Veronica Esposito | October 23, 2017

On Borders, White Space, and Saying the Unsayable

On Borders, White Space, and Saying the Unsayable

"A Poem’s Virtue is in its Lament Against Powerlessness"

By Sasha Pimentel | October 20, 2017

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