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My Own Personal Herakles

My Own Personal Herakles

On Love, Loss, and the Fire at the Center of the Earth

By Renée Branum | September 29, 2017

We Have Always Dreamed of Other Worlds

We Have Always Dreamed of Other Worlds

Gabrielle Bellot on Literary Stargazing and Reckoning with the Infinite

By Gabrielle Bellot | September 29, 2017

Class, Race and the Case for Genre Fiction in the Canon

Class, Race and the Case for Genre Fiction in the Canon

Adrian McKinty on Reading the Real Giants of Literature

By Adrian McKinty | September 27, 2017

The 1980s Tell-All That Scandalized Literary London

The 1980s Tell-All That Scandalized Literary London

David Plante's Difficult Women: Jean Rhys, Germaine Greer, and Sonia Orwell

By Scott Spencer | September 27, 2017

Marianne Moore's Sexist Reception

Marianne Moore's Sexist Reception

She Was "Too Critical to Be a Poet and Too Poetic to Be a Critic"

By Evan Kindley | September 27, 2017

We Can't Ignore H.P. Lovecraft's White Supremacy

We Can't Ignore H.P. Lovecraft's White Supremacy

Lovecraftian Narratives of Race Persist in Contemporary Politics

By Wes House | September 26, 2017

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Reading Jane Eyre While Black

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