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Scent and Sensibility: 5 Olfactory Novels

Scent and Sensibility: 5 Olfactory Novels

Erica Bauermeister on That Most Underrated of Literary Senses

By Erica Bauermeister | May 24, 2019

Hilary Plum on Terrorism, Autoimmune Disease, and Blurring the Self/Other Line

Hilary Plum on Terrorism, Autoimmune Disease, and Blurring the Self/Other Line

In Conversation with Eric LeMay on the New Books Network

By New Books Network | May 24, 2019

Struggling to Mine Family History for My Novel

Struggling to Mine Family History for My Novel

Roxana Robinson on Capturing Her Great-grandfather in Fiction

By Roxana Robinson | May 24, 2019

What Happens When You Pose as Susan Sontag on Twitter?

What Happens When You Pose as Susan Sontag on Twitter?

Rebecca Brill on Inhabiting the Diaries of a Great Mind

By Rebecca Brill | May 23, 2019

Ryan Chapman on Stolen Ideas and How Dark Your Comedy Can Go

Ryan Chapman on Stolen Ideas and How Dark Your Comedy Can Go

The Author of Riots I Have Known in Conversation with Maris Kreizman

By The Maris Review | May 23, 2019

Real or Fake? Stuck in the Glitching Reality of Contemporary America

Real or Fake? Stuck in the Glitching Reality of Contemporary America

Laurence Scott on Orrin Hatch's Glasses
(and the Philosophical Problem of the Real)

By Laurence Scott | May 23, 2019

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Kevin Powers on an Unsung Classic of American
Nature Writing

By Kevin Powers | May 23, 2019

As a Teacher of Gothic Lit, I Should Have Known Better Than to Move into a Haunted House

By Emily Waples | May 23, 2019

Binyavanga Wainaina on His Childhood in the Infancy of the Kenyan Republic

By Binyavanga Wainaina | May 23, 2019

On Fact, Fiction, and Translating Lena Andersson

On Fact, Fiction, and Translating Lena Andersson

Saskia Vogel Profiles the Author of Acts of Infidelity

By Saskia Vogel | May 23, 2019

Ann Beattie: What to Eat When Your Book Tour Comes to an End

Ann Beattie: What to Eat When Your Book Tour Comes to an End

An Essential Guide, from Newt Soup to Armagnac

By Ann Beattie | May 22, 2019

How Imagining Other Worlds Can Help You Imagine Other Selves

How Imagining Other Worlds Can Help You Imagine Other Selves

Veronica Esposito on the Literary Paradigm Shift
That Came with Her Transition

By Veronica Esposito | May 22, 2019

Six of the Best Bad Women in Fiction

Six of the Best Bad Women in Fiction

From Jane Eyre to Olive Kitteridge, Sara Collins Favorite Flawed Protagonists

By Sara Collins | May 22, 2019

5 Reasons a Writer Should Move to Baltimore

5 Reasons a Writer Should Move to Baltimore

Danielle Evans: A Little Bit of Heartbreak and a Lot of Ocean

By Danielle Evans | May 22, 2019

Kate Mulgrew on the Work of Waiting, in Acting and in Life

Kate Mulgrew on the Work of Waiting, in Acting and in Life

Reflections from the Star of Orange Is the New Black and Star Trek

By Kate Mulgrew | May 22, 2019

Einstein and the Devastating Effects of WWI on Science

Einstein and the Devastating Effects of WWI on Science

How the Study of Physics Came to a Halt During the Great War

By Matthew Stanley | May 22, 2019

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