Alex McElroy on R.L. Stine, Casey Plett, and a masterclass of self-deception

Alex McElroy on R.L. Stine, Casey Plett, and a masterclass of self-deception

Rapid-fire book recs from the author of The Atmospherians

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Searching For the Mythical Viking North of Yore

Searching For the Mythical Viking North of Yore

Bernd Brunner Considers the Perpetual Reinvention and Reconstruction of the North

By Bernd Brunner | February 16, 2022

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

By Erin Morgenstern | February 16, 2022

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

By Mary Kuryla | February 16, 2022

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

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American Literature is a History of the Nation’s Libraries

By Ilan Stavans | February 16, 2022

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

Garrett Hongo on His Audio Obsession

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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<em>Hangsaman</em> by Shirley Jackson, Read by Julia Whelan

Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson, Read by Julia Whelan

Psychological Terror and Suspense

By Behind the Mic | February 16, 2022

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

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

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

On the Feminine Urge to Murder

Heather O'Neill Considers Rage and Femininity

By Heather O'Neill | February 15, 2022

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

The Unspeakable Through the Diminutive: Read a 1986 Review of Maus

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

By Book Marks | February 15, 2022

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

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

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

By David Wright Faladé | February 15, 2022

Leigh Stein on Writing a Pandemic Time Capsule

Leigh Stein on Writing a Pandemic Time Capsule

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

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