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How Nostalgia Corrupts Politics and Pop Culture

How Nostalgia Corrupts Politics and Pop Culture

On Donald Trump, Stranger Things, and Longing for an Imaginary Past

By Sean Bernard | December 13, 2016

William Gaddis Occupies Wall Street, Channels a Tween Trump

William Gaddis Occupies Wall Street, Channels a Tween Trump

Yet Another Great 20th-Century Writer Predicts the Rise of Donald Trump

By John Domini | December 12, 2016

What Counts As Transgender Literature?

What Counts As Transgender Literature?

On the Writing(s) of Kai Cheng Thom, and the Elusiveness of Categories

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 9, 2016

The Time Mario Puzo Wrote a Takedown of <em>The Paris Review</em>

The Time Mario Puzo Wrote a Takedown of The Paris Review

On The Godfather Author's 1967 Review for Book World

By M. J. Moore | December 9, 2016

How We Write About Work, Then and Now

How We Write About Work, Then and Now

On Dickens, Office Life, and Tales of the Precariat in Contemporary Fiction

By Juliana Broad | December 8, 2016

Hemingway vs. Ken Russell: Or Why You Should Compare Apples to Oranges

Hemingway vs. Ken Russell: Or Why You Should Compare Apples to Oranges

Noah Berlatsky on the Critical Value of Broad Comparisons

By Noah Berlatsky | December 7, 2016

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Was Edmund Wilson Just Jealous of Lolita?

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By Rajat Singh | December 5, 2016

Where is All the Sibling Literature for Adults?

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Katharine Noel on the Centrality of Sibling Relationships to YA

By Katharine Noel | December 2, 2016

On the Dangerous AIDS Myth of 'Patient Zero,' and the Book That Started It All

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How Convenient Storylines Can Ruin Lives

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A Feminist Thoreau

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On the Adirondack Woodswoman Anne LaBastille

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Storytelling vs. Oversharing in the Age of Snapchat

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