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The Long Unpredictable Life of Art: Francine Prose on Teaching James Alan McPherson to Incarcerated Students

The Long Unpredictable Life of Art: Francine Prose on Teaching James Alan McPherson to Incarcerated Students

Remembering a Dear Friend Through His Work

By Francine Prose | August 23, 2021

Misunderstanding Thoreau: Reading Neurodiversity in Literature and in Life

Misunderstanding Thoreau: Reading Neurodiversity in Literature and in Life

Steve Edwards on Kathryn Schulz, Donald Hall, and the Things We Miss

By Steve Edwards | August 23, 2021

A Tribute to Roberto Calasso

A Tribute to Roberto Calasso

Friends and Colleagues Remember the Late Writer and Legendary Publisher

By Literary Hub | August 23, 2021

How Reading and the Thirst for Knowledge is at the Heart of Mary Shelley’s <em>Frankenstein</em>

How Reading and the Thirst for Knowledge is at the Heart of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Heather Cass White on the Almost Sinful Allure of Self-Enlightenment

By Heather Cass White | August 23, 2021

My Year of Mourning: Mapping the Full Cycle of the Loss of My Father

My Year of Mourning: Mapping the Full Cycle of the Loss of My Father

Merissa Nathan Gerson’s Notes on Grief

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Meet Granta’s Next Generation of Important Spanish Novelists

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The Sound of Muses: On Literary Comebacks and the Importance of Listening with Purpose

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Edward Hirsch on the Poet’s Celebration of Grief

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Laura Marsh on the Enduring Appeal of Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair

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Bill Steigerwald on Life Undercover as a Black Man in the Jim Crow South

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In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

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An Audio Treasure for Theater and Film Buffs

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Behind Closed Doors: Documenting the Lives of the Elders in a Time of Plague

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How David Foster Wallace Used Compromise Aesthetics to Sell <em>Infinite Jest</em>

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Rachel Greenwald Smith on the Treacherous Common Territories of Literary Culture and Capitalism

By Rachel Greenwald Smith | August 20, 2021

Tales of Bohemian Living with The Lounge Lizards in 1979 New York

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John Lurie on the Days of Sex, Drugs, and Car Crash Jazz

By John Lurie | August 20, 2021

The Great Cosmological Debate of the Twentieth Century

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