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Where Are the West's Political Novelists?

Where Are the West's Political Novelists?

Aminatta Forna On the False Binary of Art and Politics

By Aminatta Forna | May 6, 2015

The Day Virginia Woolf Brought Her Mom Back to Life

The Day Virginia Woolf Brought Her Mom Back to Life

May 5th, the Death of Julia Stephen (and the birth of 'To the Lighthouse')

By Christopher Frizzelle | May 6, 2015

On Choosing to Write in a Second Language

On Choosing to Write in a Second Language

Antonio Ruiz-Camacho goes the way of Nabokov and Hemon

By Antonio Ruiz-Camacho | April 29, 2015

Falconry as therapy

Falconry as therapy

Helen Macdonald Reads T.H. White

By Helen Macdonald | April 24, 2015

On the Subject of my Suicide

On the Subject of my Suicide

Norah Vincent wrote 'Adeline' and then tried to kill herself

By Norah Vincent | April 23, 2015

When Writers Attack

When Writers Attack

On Boxing, Norman Mailer, and the art of getting hit

By Jonathan Gottschall | April 23, 2015

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We Have This Device. It’s Called a Book.

By Ryan Britt | April 21, 2015

Amiri Baraka, Politics, and Tough Love

By Evie Shockley | April 20, 2015

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What Memoir Can Do That Poetry Can't

What Memoir Can Do That Poetry Can't

Tracy K. Smith on finding memories buried in words

By Tracy K. Smith | April 16, 2015

One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway

One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway

Åsne Seierstad

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In Defense of the Poet Laureate

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Where Do We Go from Here?: The Future of Fiction

Where Do We Go from Here?: The Future of Fiction

Saul Bellow

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