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Plays vs. Novels (You'll Never Guess What Happens Next)

Plays vs. Novels (You'll Never Guess What Happens Next)

In Which a Playwright Turned Novelist Tries to Decide

By Kirk Lynn | October 19, 2015

In Praise of Melville’s Whale Chapters

In Praise of Melville’s Whale Chapters

Happy Pub Birthday, Moby-Dick, You are the Best

By Joel Cuthbertson | October 16, 2015

Dear Lizzie: The Second Lover to the Second Communist

Dear Lizzie: The Second Lover to the Second Communist

How the correspondence of Marx and Engels turned into a novel

By Gavin McCrea | October 15, 2015

Why the Printed Book Will Last Another 500 Years

Why the Printed Book Will Last Another 500 Years

The Future of Reading Came and Went

By Adam Sternbergh | October 14, 2015

Ta-Nehisi Coates Has Given #Black Lives Matter Its Foundational Text

Ta-Nehisi Coates Has Given #Black Lives Matter Its Foundational Text

How to Love an Imperfect Genius, and Other Considerations

By Zinzi Clemmons | October 8, 2015

Kenzaburo Oe Finds a Hero in Huckleberry Finn

Kenzaburo Oe Finds a Hero in Huckleberry Finn

Ruminations On America, Harvard Square, 1965

By Kenzaburo Oe | October 8, 2015

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Don Quixote: Sloppy, Inconsistent, Baffling, Perfect

By Ilan Stavans | October 7, 2015

When Pen Names Become People

By Tobias Carroll | October 7, 2015

Why Salman Rushdie Should Win the Nobel Prize in Literature

By Jonathan Russell Clark | October 7, 2015

A Black Feminist’s Search for Sisterhood

A Black Feminist’s Search for Sisterhood

Michele Wallace

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How to Read Through the Depths of Postpartum Depression

How to Read Through the Depths of Postpartum Depression

On John Gardner, Denis Johnson, and the Baby Blues

By Liz Windhorst Harmer | October 5, 2015

Sloane Crosley on Self-Diagnosing Novel Dysmorphia

Sloane Crosley on Self-Diagnosing Novel Dysmorphia

Because in the Writer's Mind, Size Sometimes Matters

By Sloane Crosley | October 1, 2015

The Literary Heirs of the Great Carraway

The Literary Heirs of the Great Carraway

On Donna Tartt, Richard Ford, and Lorrie Moore

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Exploring Patrick Modiano's Paris

Exploring Patrick Modiano's Paris

Of Memoryscapes and Lost Time

By Debarati Sanyal | September 28, 2015

Chinelo Okparanta on Faith, War and Being Gay in Nigeria

Chinelo Okparanta on Faith, War and Being Gay in Nigeria

Her Debut Novel, Under the Udala Trees, Launches at Housing Works

By Molly Rose Quinn | September 21, 2015

Nom de Vie: Literary Social Media in  the Age of Ferrante

Nom de Vie: Literary Social Media in the Age of Ferrante

On Anonymity and the Self-Promotional Author

By Alexander Chee | September 17, 2015

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