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Why Are We So Afraid of Female Desire?

On Sex and Moral Panic, from the Victorians to the Hays Code

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Chris Kraus on Why You Should Read Eileen Myles's First Novel

Chris Kraus on Why You Should Read Eileen Myles's First Novel

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I Found My Family in <em>Jesus' Son</em>

I Found My Family in Jesus' Son

James Boice on One of the Most Influential Books of the Latest 50 Years

By James Boice | May 31, 2017

On the Autofiction of Conrad Aiken, Unsung American Modernist

On the Autofiction of Conrad Aiken, Unsung American Modernist

On Freud, Language, and the Topography of Consciousness

By Conor Higgins | May 25, 2017

Virginia Woolf: There Are Way Too Many Personal Essays Out There

Virginia Woolf: There Are Way Too Many Personal Essays Out There

Just Because You Can Write it, Doesn’t Mean You Have to Publish It

By Lorraine Berry | May 24, 2017

In a 12th-Century Iranian Poem, a Vision of Solidarity We Need Today

In a 12th-Century Iranian Poem, a Vision of Solidarity We Need Today

What We Can Learn from The Conference of the Birds

By Theodore McCombs | May 24, 2017

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Reading Joan Didion in the Midst of Depression

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Philipa Snow Reads Play It As It Lays and Finds the Right Kind of Feeling

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The Price Tag of Being a Woman

The Price Tag of Being a Woman

How Rachel Cusk, Joanna Walsh & Others Depict the Demands of Femininity

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In <em>Kintu</em>, a Look at What it Means to be Ugandan Now

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