What Are We Saying When We Grant a Movie 'Universal' Status?

What Are We Saying When We Grant a Movie 'Universal' Status?

The Farewell">Simon Han on the "Good Lie" of The Farewell

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The Inspired Vengeance of Mythic Icelandic Women

The Inspired Vengeance of Mythic Icelandic Women

Kassandra Montag on Learning to Write Blunt, Unabashed Characters

By Kassandra Montag | September 13, 2019

Dead Men of Leisure on Their Love of Fishing

Dead Men of Leisure on Their Love of Fishing

the disappointment vexeth me to this very day."">"I felt a great fish at the end of my line but it dropt in, and
the disappointment vexeth me to this very day."

By Literary Hub | September 13, 2019

Jennine Capó Crucet on Her Time Among the Whites

Jennine Capó Crucet on Her Time Among the Whites

The My Time Among the Whites Essayist on The Literary Life
with Mitchell Kaplan

By The Literary Life | September 13, 2019

Jeffrey A. Winters on the Rise of Oligarchic Democracy

Jeffrey A. Winters on the Rise of Oligarchic Democracy

The Author of Oligarchy
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By Keen On | September 13, 2019

11 Forgotten Books of the 1920s Worth Reading Now

11 Forgotten Books of the 1920s Worth Reading Now

Writers from the 1920s to Prime You for the 2020s

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A Brief History of Mostly Terrible Campaign Biographies

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A Legendary Publishing House's Most Infamous Rejection Letters

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The Hard, Familiar Truths of Rion Amilcar Scott's Invented World

The Hard, Familiar Truths of Rion Amilcar Scott's Invented World

The Author of The World Doesn't Require You in Conversation with Danielle Evans

By Danielle Evans | September 12, 2019

When D.H. Lawrence's

When D.H. Lawrence's "Unlovely" Paintings Were Confiscated by Scotland Yard

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The Eerily Prescient Lessons of<br> <em>Darkness at Noon</em>

The Eerily Prescient Lessons of
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Michael Scammell on the Eternal Totalitarian Truths of Arthur Koestler's Classic

By Michael Scammell | September 12, 2019

The Woman Who Beat the Nazis in Europe's Deadliest Horse Race

The Woman Who Beat the Nazis in Europe's Deadliest Horse Race

Lata Brandisová Probably Would Have Also Punched Them

By Richard Askwith | September 12, 2019

Tangled Histories of Family and Empire, England and Jamaica

Tangled Histories of Family and Empire, England and Jamaica

Hazel V. Carby on Generations of a Black British Family

By Hazel V. Carby | September 12, 2019

Sarah Weinman: Why We've Always Misunderstood <em>Lolita</em>

Sarah Weinman: Why We've Always Misunderstood Lolita

The Author of The Real Lolita on The Maris Review

By The Maris Review | September 12, 2019

Tim Desmond: Is the World More or Less F*ucked Up Than It Used to Be?

Tim Desmond: Is the World More or Less F*ucked Up Than It Used to Be?

The Author of How to Stay Human in a Fucked Up World on Just the Right Book with Roxanne Coady

By Just the Right Book | September 12, 2019

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