Searching For the Mythical Viking North of Yore

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Bernd Brunner Considers the Perpetual Reinvention and Reconstruction of the North

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How Lewis Carroll Built a World Where Nothing Needs to Make Sense

How Lewis Carroll Built a World Where Nothing Needs to Make Sense

Erin Morgenstern on Why We Return to Alice

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Deeply Flawed Mother Figures of Literature: A Reading List

Deeply Flawed Mother Figures of Literature: A Reading List

Mary Kuryla Recommends Toni Morrison, Joy Williams, T Kira Madden, and Others

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Roni Cohen-Sandler on Raising Self-Reliant Teenage Girls in the Age of the Internet

Roni Cohen-Sandler on Raising Self-Reliant Teenage Girls in the Age of the Internet

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | February 16, 2022

A Poem by Ben Estes

A Poem by Ben Estes

From the New Collection ABC Moonlight

By Ben Estes | February 16, 2022

American Literature is a History of the Nation’s Libraries

American Literature is a History of the Nation’s Libraries

Ilan Stavans on One of Democracy’s Bedrock Institutions

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On Jessie Redmon Fauset, the Harlem Renaissance Writer Long Overdue for a Resurgence

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Eric Pliner on What To Do When the Algorithm Doesn’t Have the Answer

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Garrett Hongo on His Audio Obsession

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“We Get to Be Young Only Once.” On My Life-Changing Discovery of Laurie Colwin

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How Kim Fay Read—and Ate—Her Way Through Home Cooking During Her Formative Years

By Kim Fay | February 15, 2022

On the Feminine Urge to Murder

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Heather O'Neill Considers Rage and Femininity

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The Unspeakable Through the Diminutive: Read a 1986 Review of <em>Maus</em>

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The New York Times on Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer-Winning Graphic Novel

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David Wright Faladé on the Case for Civil War Revisionism in Film and Literature

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“We are writing ourselves closer to the ideals purported at the founding.”

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Leigh Stein on Writing a Pandemic Time Capsule

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By I'm a Writer But | February 15, 2022

In Search of the Perfect Sound: Confessions of an Accidental Audiophile

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Garrett Hongo on the Pastime That Took on a Life of Its Own

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