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Criticism

Data-Driven Amazon Bookstores Can’t Compete with Indies

So What, Exactly, is the Point?
May 4, 2018  By Antón Barba-Kay

How to Suppress Women’s Writing: “She Only Wrote One Good Book.”

Subversive Works are Buried, While Stereotypical Ones are Upheld
May 3, 2018  By Joanna Russ
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5 Book Reviews You Need To Read This Week

Charles Simic on Tracy K. Smith, Ron Charles on David Duchovny, and more.
May 3, 2018  By Literary Hub
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The Burden of a Thousand Possible Lives: On Motherhood and Conflicting Desires

Reading Motherhood and And Now We Have Everything
May 2, 2018  By Jennifer Schaffer
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On Marjane Satrapi’s Early
#MeToo Novel

How Embroideries Reveals the Power of Women's Stories
April 30, 2018  By Gabrielle Bellot
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Our Imaginations Need to Dwell
Where the Wild Things Are

How Children's Literature Leads Us to the Uncanny
April 30, 2018  By Liam Heneghan
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Van Morrison, Unlikeliest of
Literary Muses

On the Outsize Influence of Astral Weeks
April 26, 2018  By Tobias Carroll
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On the Ways We Read
(and Are Written To)

Damon Young on the Rarity and Fragility of Words on a Page
April 26, 2018  By Damon Young
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Margaret Atwood on How She Came to Write The Handmaid’s Tale

The Origin Story of an Iconic Novel
April 25, 2018  By Margaret Atwood
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10 Things You Should Know About
Lists on the Internet

You Have to Read This (But You Don't Actually Have to Read This)
April 24, 2018  By Emily Temple
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When Fiction Pulls Back the Curtain on American Conservatism

Two Novels That Interrogate the Principle of the Few Over the Many
April 24, 2018  By Colette Shade
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Jane Austen and the Timeless
Tradition of Mansplaining

From Austen to Rebecca Solnit, Men Will Explain Things
April 23, 2018  By Kelly Coyne
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The Meanest Things Vladimir Nabokov Said About Other Writers

"Many accepted authors simply do not exist for me."
April 20, 2018  By Emily Temple
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Silent Spring is More than a
Scientific Landmark: It’s Literature

On the Underrated Poetry of Rachel Carson's Masterpiece
April 20, 2018  By Rebecca Renner
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Michelle Dean: The Problem With “Speaking for Women”

On Sisterhood and the Abstractions of Contemporary Feminism
April 13, 2018  By Michelle Dean
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The Complicated Comforts of
Marilynne Robinson

Could One Writer Help Me Reckon with Personal and Political Upheaval?
April 13, 2018  By Rachel Vorona Cote
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Restoring Power to the Women of Ancient Myth

Madeline Miller on Being a Female Classicist
April 11, 2018  By Madeline Miller
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Maybe Poets Are, in Fact, Aliens

On Craig Raine and the Martian School of Poetry
April 11, 2018  By Thomas C. Foster
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The 100 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of The Great Gatsby

Nothing Great About It . . . Amirite?
April 10, 2018  By Emily Temple
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On the Rise—and Cost—of the African Novel in English

Why Isn't There a Good Igbo Translation of Things Fall Apart?
April 9, 2018  By Mukoma Wa Ngugi
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