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Correcting for the Male Gaze: On the Unique Challenges of Writing Biographies of Women

Correcting for the Male Gaze: On the Unique Challenges of Writing Biographies of Women

How Iris Jamahl Dunkle Found the Fuller Story of the Life of Sanora Babb

By Iris Jamahl Dunkle | October 17, 2024

It Bugs Me That My Friend Claims to Be a Writer But Never Writes: Am I the Literary Asshole?

It Bugs Me That My Friend Claims to Be a Writer But Never Writes: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | October 17, 2024

Belonging Somewhere Else, Too: Seven Books on Making a Home in a New Country

Belonging Somewhere Else, Too: Seven Books on Making a Home in a New Country

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By Bruna Dantas Lobato | October 17, 2024

What the Story of Richard II and Henry IV Reveals About the Nature of Power

What the Story of Richard II and Henry IV Reveals About the Nature of Power

Helen Castor on the Timeless Resonance of a Medieval Political Crisis

By Helen Castor | October 17, 2024

“You Can’t Leave Your Folk at the Door.” On Queer Life in Appalachia

“You Can’t Leave Your Folk at the Door.” On Queer Life in Appalachia

Rae Garringer Talks to Elandria Williams in Knoxville, Tennessee

By Rae Garringer | October 17, 2024

To Fund, or Not to Fund: On Redefining What Type of Work Is Grant-Worthy

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Marian Crotty Shares How Her Queer Fiction Was Shaped by a Research Trip to South Dakota

By Marian Crotty | October 17, 2024

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The Annotated Nightstand: What Mosab Abu Toha Is Reading Now, and Next

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Language, Loss and Nostalgia: On Growing Old As a Learning Experience

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No Human Is An Island: On Fiction As a Way of Connecting Across Difference

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