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    The Craft of Writing

    Dwyer Murphy Explains How to Build a House (in Your Novel)

    “I needed to know about houses—big and rambling houses, and how they alter people.”

     
    By Dwyer Murphy  May 16, 2025
    Supreme Court

    Does the Supreme Court Really Just Run on Vibes Now?

    By Leah Litman  May 15, 2025
    Mrs. Dalloway

    What a Plunge! Teaching Mrs. Dalloway to High Schoolers in 2025

    By Mia Manzulli  May 14, 2025
    What If?

    Mushroom Cloud Over Manhattan: What Would Happen in the First Few Hours of Nuclear War

    By Mark Lynas  May 12, 2025
    Antifascism

    What If It Is Happening Here? Lessons From the Anti-Fascist Novel in Trump’s Second Term

    By David Renton  May 12, 2025
    Jane Austen

    The Power of Persuasion: Why Lawyers Love Jane Austen

    By Natalie Jenner  May 6, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Anniversaries

    Kazuo Ishiguro Reflects on Never Let Me Go, 20 Years Later

    By Kazuo Ishiguro  May 5, 2025
    Childhood

    How Charles Dickens’s Troubled Childhood Influenced His Literary Output

    By Peter Conrad  May 5, 2025
    Ancient Rome

    Portraits of Power: Inside the Legacy Left by Ancient Rome’s Most Famous Emperors

    By Tom Holland  May 1, 2025
    literary criticism

    L. Frank Baum’s Literary Vision of an American Century: The Wizard of Oz at 125 Years

    Ed Simon on Grifters, the Chicago World Fair, and Oz as Symbol of a Modern USA

    By Ed Simon  May 16, 2025
    Science fiction

    Elon Musk Just Doesn’t Understand the Sci-Fi Visions of Iain M. Banks

    By Tobias Carroll  April 30, 2025
    Literary History

    75 Years Ago, The Martian Chronicles Legitimized Science Fiction

    By Sam Weller  April 28, 2025
    Ancient History

    A Deeply Globalized Ancient World: On William Dalrymple’s The Golden Road

    By Alok A. Khorana  April 28, 2025
    Close Readings

    Lucia Berlin vs. Raymond Carver:
    Who Is the Real Patron Saint of Realism?

    Or, Who We [Should] Talk About When We Talk About Realism

    By Julien C. Levy  April 23, 2025
    In Memoriam

    The Most Literary Pope:
    Requiescat in Pace, Francis

    By Nick Ripatrazone  April 22, 2025
    Trans Rights

    Lydia Kiesling on Refusing to Speak at an Anti-Trans University

    By Lydia Kiesling  April 21, 2025
    Nationalism

    “Is Canada a Viable Country?” Yes, According to American Literature

    By Brooke Clark  April 17, 2025
    Espionage

    On the Real-Life Story of Deep-Cover Russian Spies Living As American Families

    Shaun Walker on the Past and Present of a Classic Cold War Espionage Operation

    By Shaun Walker  April 16, 2025
    Detective Fiction

    “A Mystery Novel Like No Other Before.” On Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time

    By Sarah Weinman  April 16, 2025
    Comics

    How Robert Crumb Channeled Mid-Century Teenage Angst Into Art

    By Dan Nadel  April 15, 2025
    Poets

    An Incomplete Biography of Jane Hirshfield in Six Jobs (with Poems)

    By Heather Swan  April 14, 2025
    American Empire

    Viet Thanh Nguyen: Most American Literature is the Literature of Empire

    “An imperial literature prefers the realism of showing the imperfect domesticity within an American empire.”

    By Viet Thanh Nguyen  April 11, 2025
    Friendships

    On the 40-Year Friendship of Toni Morrison and Fran Lebowitz

    By Priya Vulchi  April 9, 2025
    Graphic Novels

    New York Noir: From the Graphic Adaptation of Paul Auster’s New York Trilogy

    By Paul Auster  April 9, 2025
    Totalitarianism

    Darkest Nights: On the Literal Dreams of German Jews During Hitler’s Rise to Power

    By Zoe Roth  April 30, 2025
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