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Poetry is the Place for Joy: Or How We Praise the Mutilated World

Poetry is the Place for Joy: Or How We Praise the Mutilated World

On Ross Gay, Gabrielle Calvocoressi, Alan Shapiro, and Paisley Rekdal

By Jonathan Farmer | July 13, 2016

How the French Reread Proust

How the French Reread Proust

There Are Three Types of People, and All of Them Reread Proust

By Laure Murat | July 11, 2016

Six Reasons Why You Must Read Proust

Six Reasons Why You Must Read Proust

Happy Birthday, Marcel

By Joshua Zajdman | July 11, 2016

Really, Here's Why You Should Read Proust

Really, Here's Why You Should Read Proust

Marcel Proust's Biographer Makes the Case

By William C. Carter | July 11, 2016

Oedipa Maas: Our Guide to Contemporary Paranoia

Oedipa Maas: Our Guide to Contemporary Paranoia

The Ongoing Relevance of Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, 50 Years Later

By Nick Ripatrazone | July 7, 2016

The Genius of William Shawn, and the Invention of <em>The New Yorker</em>

The Genius of William Shawn, and the Invention of The New Yorker

David Remnick on the Post-War Evolution of an American Literary Institution

By David Remnick | July 5, 2016

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How Michael Herr Transcended New Journalism

By Robert Stone | June 28, 2016

What It Means To Be an Inclusive Literary Journal

By Zinzi Clemmons | June 27, 2016

Writing Must Explore Its Relation To Power

By Robert Glück | June 27, 2016

How Writing About Pit Bulls Led to Death Threats, Online and IRL

How Writing About Pit Bulls Led to Death Threats, Online and IRL

On the Firestorm Around Bronwen Dickey's New Book

By Melissa Holbrook Pierson | June 24, 2016

Dante, Auschwitz, and the World Beyond the Sun

Dante, Auschwitz, and the World Beyond the Sun

Louis Begley's Life with the Divine Comedy

By Louis Begley | June 24, 2016

Modern China is So Crazy It Needs a New Literary Genre

Modern China is So Crazy It Needs a New Literary Genre

On Living Through the "Ultra-Unreal," and Writing About It

By Ning Ken | June 23, 2016

On the Invisibility of Middle-Aged Women

On the Invisibility of Middle-Aged Women

Dorthe Nors Writes Characters on the Verge of Disappearance

By Dorthe Nors | June 22, 2016

Svetlana Alexievich's History of Human Feelings

Svetlana Alexievich's History of Human Feelings

The Nobel Laureate on Creating a New Genre

By Bethanne Patrick | June 22, 2016

Dead Dogs Are More Than Metaphors

Dead Dogs Are More Than Metaphors

On the Burden of Killing an Animal and the Stories That Take it For Granted

By Laura Lampton Scott | June 21, 2016

American Noir and the Outlaw Lit of James Sallis

American Noir and the Outlaw Lit of James Sallis

In Praise of a Great American Crime Writer

By Lisa Levy | June 17, 2016

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