“Get Out.” Advice on Teaching High School From the Late, Great Frank McCourt

“Get Out.” Advice on Teaching High School From the Late, Great Frank McCourt

Tom Allon on His Enduring Friendship with the Beloved Irish Memoirist

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Read the Winners of <em>American Short Fiction’</em>s 2026 Insider Prize

Read the Winners of American Short Fiction’s 2026 Insider Prize

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The Literary Agent Who Lost the Narrative Thread

The Literary Agent Who Lost the Narrative Thread

Jennifer Herrera on Reckoning with Grief and How She Tells Her Story

By Jennifer Michelle Herrera | September 9, 2026

A Legal History of Anti-Chinese Racism in America

A Legal History of Anti-Chinese Racism in America

From Beth Lew-Williams’s Cundill Prize-Shortlisted John Doe Chinaman

By Beth Lew-Williams | September 9, 2026

Adam Erlich Sachs on Heinrich von Kleist’s <em>Michael Kohlhaas</em>

Adam Erlich Sachs on Heinrich von Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

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34 Books You Need to Read This Fall

34 Books You Need to Read This Fall

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Emily Wilson Talks Complicated Men, Celebrating Strangeness, and Why There is Always Another Way to Say It

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Brian Dillon on What Virginia Woolf’s The Waves Means to Him

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How—and Why—We Find Ourselves Trapped By Our Jobs

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What the Ghetto of Venice Reveals About Jewish History and Identity in Europe

What the Ghetto of Venice Reveals About Jewish History and Identity in Europe

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This Week in Literary History: William S. Burroughs Kills Joan Vollmer in a Drunken Game of “William Tell”

This Week in Literary History: William S. Burroughs Kills Joan Vollmer in a Drunken Game of “William Tell”

The Most Notorious Party “Game” in Literary History

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Anna Silman on Revisiting the Interview

Anna Silman on Revisiting the Interview

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

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Is Time Even Real? Does It Even Flow?

Is Time Even Real? Does It Even Flow?

Jim Al-Khalili on the Physics that Make the Universe Tick

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How to Get Over the Hump of Writing Sex

How to Get Over the Hump of Writing Sex

Suzanne Roberts Offers Some Prompts For Accessing Love and Lust

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10 Literary Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels That Offer Hope for the Future

10 Literary Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels That Offer Hope for the Future

Chloe Benjamin Recommends Ted Chiang, Susanna Clarke, Mohsin Hamid, and More

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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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