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Demystifying the Writer's Fear of Failure

Demystifying the Writer's Fear of Failure

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By Sarah LaBrie | October 16, 2019

Harold Bloom on Cormac McCarthy, True Heir to Melville and Faulkner

Harold Bloom on Cormac McCarthy, True Heir to Melville and Faulkner

On Violence, the Sublime, and Blood Meridian's Place in the American Canon

By Harold Bloom | October 16, 2019

The Impossibility of Capturing Truth in a Biography

The Impossibility of Capturing Truth in a Biography

Iris Origo on Why We Try Anyway

By Iris Origo | October 15, 2019

Who Has the Right to Write About Hurricane Katrina?

Who Has the Right to Write About Hurricane Katrina?

Maggie Neil on The Yellow House and the Many Names of Loss

By Maggie Neil | October 11, 2019

Nobel Prize-Winner Olga Tokarczuk in Conversation with John Freeman

Nobel Prize-Winner Olga Tokarczuk in Conversation with John Freeman

The Newly Minted Laureate and Author of Flights

By John Freeman | October 10, 2019

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By Brad Gooch | October 10, 2019

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Philip Pullman on Children's Literature and the Critics Who Disdain It

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On the Darkness at the Heart of Jamaica Kincaid's Children's Mystery

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In Nazism, Joseph Roth Saw the End of Europe’s Cosmopolitan Dream

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Bill Mullen on The Welcome Table and No Papers for Muhammad

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The Author Who Didn't Care to Be Remembered

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On the Curious Case of Ann Petry

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Acts of Recognition: On the Women Characters of Haruki Murakami

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