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Mukoma Wa Ngugi: On the Poem That Made Me Fall in Love with Words

Mukoma Wa Ngugi: On the Poem That Made Me Fall in Love with Words

A Close Reading of Sonia Sanchez's "Poem at Thirty"

By Mukoma Wa Ngugi | July 17, 2019

What Hemingway Cut From <em>For Whom the Bell Tolls</em>

What Hemingway Cut From For Whom the Bell Tolls

An Epilogue, For Starters

By Seán Hemingway | July 16, 2019

Brazil's History Is Ahead of It, Not Behind

Brazil's History Is Ahead of It, Not Behind

Geovani Martins on Finding Joy in a Beautiful, Struggling Nation

By Geovani Martins | July 16, 2019

A.S. Byatt on Iris Murdoch's <br><em>The Bell</em>

A.S. Byatt on Iris Murdoch's
The Bell

In honor of Murdoch's 100th birthday

By A. S. Byatt | July 15, 2019

An Object Lesson in Naming Novels: Iris Murdoch's<br> <em>The Sea, The Sea</em>

An Object Lesson in Naming Novels: Iris Murdoch's
The Sea, The Sea

The Novel So Nice They Named It Twice

By Emily Temple | July 15, 2019

Michael Cunningham on the Novel That Would Become <em>Mrs Dalloway</em>

Michael Cunningham on the Novel That Would Become Mrs Dalloway

With Images from the Original Manuscript of "The Hours"

By Michael Cunningham | July 15, 2019

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Why a 1980s Novel of Dystopian Patriarchy Still Speaks to Women Today

By Leni Zumas | July 15, 2019

Dear Internet: The Little Mermaid Also Happens to Be Queer Allegory

By Gabrielle Bellot | July 12, 2019

To Tell the Story of a Brother
I Will Never Know

By Marian Ryan | July 12, 2019

Why Report on Desire? Saskia Vogel on Reading Lisa Taddeo

Why Report on Desire? Saskia Vogel on Reading Lisa Taddeo

“We’re all capable of throwing everything away in a moment, if the desire is strong enough.”

By Saskia Vogel | July 12, 2019

The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of <em>To Kill a Mockingbird</em>

The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of To Kill a Mockingbird

"I would recommend reading this if you have no life and if you want to torture yourself."

By Emily Temple | July 11, 2019

Finding Small Comfort in the Panic of Shirley Jackson

Finding Small Comfort in the Panic of Shirley Jackson

Miciah Bay Gault on the High Anxiety of The Haunting of Hill House

By Miciah Bay Gault | July 11, 2019

On Hunger, Women's Bodies, and Margaret Atwood's First Novel

On Hunger, Women's Bodies, and Margaret Atwood's First Novel

Lara Williams Considers Writing by Margaret Atwood, Han Kang,
Roxane Gay, M.F.K. Fisher, and More

By Lara Williams | July 10, 2019

Spurned in Love, Edith Wharton Turned to Poetry

Spurned in Love, Edith Wharton Turned to Poetry

Irene Goldman-Price on Wharton's Little-Known Book of Poems on Love, Loss, and Regret

By Irene Goldman-Price | July 9, 2019

The Problem of Neoliberal Realism in Contemporary Fiction

The Problem of Neoliberal Realism in Contemporary Fiction

Madeline ffitch on the Politics of "Conflict" in the Stories We Tell

By Madeline ffitch | July 9, 2019

How Fiction Fuses the Incompatible Realities of Religion and Comedy

How Fiction Fuses the Incompatible Realities of Religion and Comedy

Randy Boyagoda on Religious-Political Satire

By Randy Boyagoda | July 9, 2019

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