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Crime and Murder Among the Mormons

Crime and Murder Among the Mormons

Lisa Levy on the Unlikely Utah Noir of Mette Ivie Harrison

By Lisa Levy | January 30, 2017

How Sherlock Holmes Got His Name

How Sherlock Holmes Got His Name

On the Early Days of Arthur Conan Doyle's Iconic Character

By Michael Sims | January 25, 2017

Elizabeth Harrower, A Great Russian Master (from Australia)

Elizabeth Harrower, A Great Russian Master (from Australia)

Joan London in Praise of 'The Watch Tower'

By Joan London | January 25, 2017

Roxane Gay on Empathy, Race, and the Work of Alice Childress

Roxane Gay on Empathy, Race, and the Work of Alice Childress

In Praise of a Mid-Century Classic

By Roxane Gay | January 24, 2017

What's Happening in America? Susan Sontag Sought to Find Out in 1966

What's Happening in America? Susan Sontag Sought to Find Out in 1966

50 Years Later, As Trump Takes the Presidency, the Question Remains

By Rafia Zakaria | January 20, 2017

30 Years Later, Scorsese Makes His <em>Silence</em>

30 Years Later, Scorsese Makes His Silence

On Shūsaku Endō’s Eponymous Source Novel

By Nick Ripatrazone | January 17, 2017

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The Evolution of Sex Writing

By Amanda Arnold | January 6, 2017

There Have Always Been Genre Wars

By Ezra Glinter | January 5, 2017

The Many Bad Moms of Charles Dickens

By Rachel Vorona Cote | January 5, 2017

Resistance Lit: Scott Korb on Harriet Jacobs

Resistance Lit: Scott Korb on Harriet Jacobs

Part 4 of the NBCC Series Spotlights Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl,
Written by Herself

By Literary Hub | January 5, 2017

The Murakami Effect

The Murakami Effect

On the Homogenizing Dangers of Easily Translated Literature

By Stephen Snyder | January 4, 2017

Not My Sherlock

Not My Sherlock

A Sherlock Holmes Expert on “The Six Thatchers” and the Perils of Reinvention

By Brittany Cavallaro | January 4, 2017

Resistance Lit: Meg Waite Clayton on Markus Zusak’s <em>The Book Thief</em>

Resistance Lit: Meg Waite Clayton on Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief

The NBCC Wants to Know What Resistance Lit You Turn To

By Literary Hub | January 4, 2017

Resistance Lit: Jonathan Lethem and T.J. Stiles

Resistance Lit: Jonathan Lethem and T.J. Stiles

The NBCC Reads Asks Writers for their Resistance Reads

By Literary Hub | January 3, 2017

Five Books Making News This Week: Sugar, Satire, and Short Fiction

Five Books Making News This Week: Sugar, Satire, and Short Fiction

Gary Taubes, Aravind Adiga, Roxane Gay, and More

By Jane Ciabattari | January 3, 2017

In Memory of George Michael, In Praise of Mistakes

In Memory of George Michael, In Praise of Mistakes

On the True Meaning of Freedom

By Tyler Malone | December 29, 2016

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