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Barbara Comyns, Outsider Artist

Barbara Comyns, Outsider Artist

Without a Formal Education, She Produced Gothic Masterworks

By Nathan Scott McNamara | January 24, 2018

Same As It Ever Was: <em>Orientalism</em> Forty Years Later

Same As It Ever Was: Orientalism Forty Years Later

On Edward Said, Othering, and the Depictions of Arabs in America

By Philip Metres | January 23, 2018

Bad Faith Backlash: Arguing Online With Everyone and No One

Bad Faith Backlash: Arguing Online With Everyone and No One

The Last Jedi, and the Internet of Takes">On "Cat Person," The Last Jedi, and the Internet of Takes

By M. C. Mah | January 22, 2018

In California, Visions of Defiance and Grace

In California, Visions of Defiance and Grace

Finding Political Inspiration in the Unlikeliest of Places: The Opera

By Veronica Esposito | January 22, 2018

How to Read Caves

How to Read Caves

From Tennessee's Tuckaleechee Caverns to the
Caves of John Keats, Virgil, and Virginia Woolf

By Susan Harlan | January 19, 2018

The Literature of Bad Sex

The Literature of Bad Sex

Hermione Hoby on Power, Eros, and the Perfect Timing of 'Cat Person'

By Hermione Hoby | January 18, 2018

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Good Writers Borrow, Great Writers Remix

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Surviving 2017 with Borges: On the Art of Wonder and Wonder of Art

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 10, 2018

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Mothers, Daughters, Lovers: On the Groundbreaking Art of Kathleen Collins

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Danielle Jackson Finds Inspiration in Whatever Happened to Interracial Love

By Danielle Jackson | January 3, 2018

J.M. Coetzee: Eight Ways of Looking at Samuel Beckett

J.M. Coetzee: Eight Ways of Looking at Samuel Beckett

Imagining Professor Kafka and Beckett on the Beach

By J.M. Coetzee | January 2, 2018

Haunted by the Ghosts of Henry James and Jean Rhys

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Is <em>Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas</em> a Work of Genius?

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On Russell and Lillian Hoban, Giants of 20th-Century Children's Literature

By Rebecca Rego Barry | December 20, 2017

The Privilege of Plotlessness

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Lynn Steger Strong on Reading About Rich People While the World Burns

By Lynn Steger Strong | December 18, 2017

A Close Reading of the Best Opening Paragraph of All Time

A Close Reading of the Best Opening Paragraph of All Time

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By Emily Temple | December 15, 2017

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