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Criticism

Have We Ever Had Enough Time to Read?

For Women of the 18th Century, the Answer is a Resounding "No"
August 27, 2018  By Christina Lupton
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Vanessa Hua: On the Banned Chinese Novel My Father Loved in His Youth

Inside the Rollicking, Political World of The Water Margin
August 27, 2018  By Vanessa Hua
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In Praise of Sex Writing That’s About More Than Being Sexy

"I Want to Be Able to Read Stories That Don't Shy Away from Pain and Complexity"
August 23, 2018  By S. K. Perry
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The Art of the Late Bloomer

On the 18th-Century Artist Mary Delany and the Power of Second Acts
August 22, 2018  By Corinne Purtill
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The Time I Went Fishing with Barry Hannah

William Giraldi in Praise of the "Rebel of the English Language"
August 20, 2018  By William Giraldi
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Making the Case for the Surreal Memoir

Pushing the Limits of Form, from Leonora Carrington to Wendy C. Ortiz
August 20, 2018  By Tobias Carroll
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Why Don’t More Boys Read Little Women?

"Little Women is presumed to be hardly worthy of rescue from
the educational oblivion into which it has fallen."
August 17, 2018  By Anne Boyd Rioux
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On the Slyly Subversive Writing of E.M. Forster

If a Happy Ending Required Marriage, Forster Was All for Pessimism
August 16, 2018  By Wendy Moffat
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The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is the Best Place on the Internet

Self-Referential, Argumentative, and Never Dispassionate
August 16, 2018  By MH Rowe
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Gabrielle Bellot: On the Enigma of V.S. Naipaul

Bigoted, Violent, and Swirling with Contradictions
August 14, 2018  By Gabrielle Bellot
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A Brief History of Women Mountaineers

On Breaking the Ultimate Ceiling
August 14, 2018  By Susan Froderberg
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Zen and the Art of Alan Spence

Janice Galloway's on the Classic Story Collection, Its Colours They Are Fine
August 13, 2018  By Janice Galloway
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The Wind in the Willows Isn’t Really a Children’s Book

Nor, Mysteriously, Does it Contain Any Willows . . .
August 8, 2018  By Peter Hunt
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1921 · 1946 · 1984 · 2018 A Genealogy of the Totalitarian Novel

What Yevgeny Zamyatin's We Says About Us
August 7, 2018  By Gabrielle Bellot
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Wuthering Heights is a Virgin’s Story, and Other Opinions of Brontë’s Classic

200 Years of Writers Weighing in on Wuthering Heights
July 30, 2018  By Emily Temple
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The Legendary Iranian Poet Who Gives Me Hope

Jasmin Darznik on Forugh Farrokhzad: "The country's most notorious woman."
July 30, 2018  By Jasmin Darznik
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David Chariandy: ‘Black Canadians Do Not Come From Space.’

On Drake, Austin Clarke, and an Unsung Outpost of the Caribbean Diaspora
July 27, 2018  By David Chariandy
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Is It Really Possible To Map Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County?

On Shifting Rivers, Roving Farmsteads, and Place in Fiction
July 27, 2018  By Evan Fleischer
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The Nun Who Wrote Letters to the Greatest Poets of Her Generation

From Wallace Stevens to Seamus Heaney, on the Correspondence
of Sister Mary Bernetta Quinn
July 27, 2018  By Nick Ripatrazone
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An English Teacher Wonders: What is Literature Anyway?

"I frequently found myself questioning the very base of what I do."
July 26, 2018  By Christopher Schaberg
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