If de Tocqueville Predicted Twitter, Balzac Knew Trump Would Use It

If de Tocqueville Predicted Twitter, Balzac Knew Trump Would Use It

Liesl Schillinger on Reading Balzac in the Age of Trump

By Liesl Schillinger | February 26, 2019

The Black Women Who Wrote America's Earliest Autofiction

The Black Women Who Wrote America's Earliest Autofiction

On Following a Radical Lineage Back to the Slave Narrative

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<em>If Beale Street Could Talk</em>: How Does Barry Jenkins Measure Up to James Baldwin?

If Beale Street Could Talk: How Does Barry Jenkins Measure Up to James Baldwin?

Ahead of the Oscars Ben Rybeck Previews the Best Adapted Screenplay Nominees

By Ben Rybeck | February 22, 2019

How Louisa May Alcott Landed on the Front Lines of the Civil War

How Louisa May Alcott Landed on the Front Lines of the Civil War

"The door of opportunity opened just a crack."

By Samantha Seiple | February 22, 2019

On David Foster Wallace's Obsession With Failure

On David Foster Wallace's Obsession With Failure

What Happens When Failure is the End Point?

By Ryan Lackey | February 21, 2019

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Reflections on a Book and a Decade of Whiteness

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What Barry Jenkins Missed in His Adaptation of <em>If Beale Street Could Talk</em>

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Gabrielle Bellot Thinks James Baldwin Deserves Better

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The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Faulkner's <em>The Sound and the Fury</em>

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On the Anxiety and Vanity of Marcel Proust, Debut Novelist

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