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Why is <em>Bad Behavior</em> So Good?

Why is Bad Behavior So Good?

Mary Gaitskill's Debut Collection Turns 30

By Emily Temple | June 4, 2018

The Maternal, Feminist Utopias of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Maternal, Feminist Utopias of Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Famous for "The Yellow Wallpaper," Gilman Had an Optimistic Streak

By Michael Robertson | June 4, 2018

The Nightmarish Dream Logic of Bruno Schulz

The Nightmarish Dream Logic of Bruno Schulz

Joe Fletcher on Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

By Joe Fletcher | June 1, 2018

When Walt Whitman's Poems Were Rejected For Being Too Timely

When Walt Whitman's Poems Were Rejected For Being Too Timely

So1861">"1861" is Just So1861

By Emily Temple | May 31, 2018

Robert Gottlieb on a Neglected Russian Classic

Robert Gottlieb on a Neglected Russian Classic

Western Readers, if They Know it at All, Think of it As the Novel
About a Man Who Never Gets Out of Bed

By Robert Gottlieb | May 31, 2018

Is This the Year Dag Solstad Becomes a Household Name?

Is This the Year Dag Solstad Becomes a Household Name?

Two New Books in English by Norway's Best Living Writer

By Veronica Esposito | May 30, 2018

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David Hayden: "Men Still Too Often See Their Writing as the Canon"

By David Hayden | May 25, 2018

Sex, Drugs, Rock n' Roll, and Mystical Poets

By Literary Hub | May 23, 2018

The 12 Best Sherlock Holmes Stories, According to Arthur Conan Doyle

By Emily Temple | May 22, 2018

A Close Reading of <em>True Grit</em>'s Perfect First Paragraph

A Close Reading of True Grit's Perfect First Paragraph

Charles Portis’s Classic as an Object Lesson in Creating Character

By Emily Temple | May 18, 2018

The Truth of Ray Bradbury's Prophetic Vision

The Truth of Ray Bradbury's Prophetic Vision

Michael Moorcock: Why Fahrenheit 451 Endures

By Michael Moorcock | May 18, 2018

The Power of W. G. Sebald's Small Silences

The Power of W. G. Sebald's Small Silences

Even His Punctuation Gestured Toward the Trauma of History

By Nathan Goldman | May 18, 2018

Rereading <em>Little Women</em> in its 150th Anniversary Year

Rereading Little Women in its 150th Anniversary Year

Could it Mean as Much to Me in My Thirties as it Had in Adolescence?

By Rebecca Foster | May 16, 2018

On Soseki's Bitingly Critical Novel, <em>I Am a Cat</em>

On Soseki's Bitingly Critical Novel, I Am a Cat

A Comic Evocation of the Author's Deep Pessimism about His Own Humanity

By John Nathan | May 16, 2018

George Saunders on the Emotional Realism of Bobbie Ann Mason

George Saunders on the Emotional Realism of Bobbie Ann Mason

Her Fiction is a Scale Model Where People Wander Beautiful, Hostile Dreamscapes

By George Saunders | May 15, 2018

Paul Bowles: 'Here's My Message. Everything Gets Worse'

Paul Bowles: 'Here's My Message. Everything Gets Worse'

Paul Theroux on the Existentialism of The Sheltering Sky

By Paul Theroux | May 11, 2018

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