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Books to Help You Think <br>Like a Visual Artist

Books to Help You Think
Like a Visual Artist

Myla Goldberg on Getting Inside the Mind of a Painter or Photographer

By Myla Goldberg | April 19, 2019

Simon Critchley on Tragedy: Colluding in Our Calamity

Simon Critchley on Tragedy: Colluding in Our Calamity

From Oedipus the King to Breaking Bad, We Do It To Ourselves

By Simon Critchley | April 18, 2019

Jane Alison on Raymond Carver<br> and Tobias Wolff

Jane Alison on Raymond Carver
and Tobias Wolff

Two Close Readings: Wavelets

By Jane Alison | April 18, 2019

An Argument for Slowing the <br>F*ck Down with <em>War and Peace</em>

An Argument for Slowing the
F*ck Down with War and Peace

Natalie Adler on the Beauty of the Little Things

By Natalie Adler | April 17, 2019

Harold Bloom on Wallace Stevens, Young Love, and Old Age

Harold Bloom on Wallace Stevens, Young Love, and Old Age

"I am aware of being in the elegy season."

By Harold Bloom | April 17, 2019

What Does <em>Ulysses</em> Tell Us About<br> Pete Buttigieg?

What Does Ulysses Tell Us About
Pete Buttigieg?

On Judging a Candidate By What They Read

By Tyler Malone | April 15, 2019

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Why Are So Many Fictional Teens
Entering Cults?

By Katherine Cusumano | April 15, 2019

Why More People Should Read This Danish Masterpiece

By Garth Risk Hallberg | April 15, 2019

The CIA Scheme That Brought
Doctor Zhivago to The World

By Rebecca Renner | April 12, 2019

How Ramona Quimby Helps Kids Make Sense of This Unstable World

How Ramona Quimby Helps Kids Make Sense of This Unstable World

Rachel Richardson on the Genius of Beverly Cleary

By Rachel Richardson | April 12, 2019

Let's All Stop Pigeonholing Sally Rooney as a

Let's All Stop Pigeonholing Sally Rooney as a "Millennial Writer"

Even If We Agree She's a Great One

By Emily Temple | April 10, 2019

What Do We Really Mean By<br> 'Women's Fiction'?

What Do We Really Mean By
'Women's Fiction'?

Rachel Howard Recommends 6 Essays on the Gendering of Books

By Rachel Howard | April 10, 2019

Falling in Love with Malcolm X—and His Mastery of Metaphor

Falling in Love with Malcolm X—and His Mastery of Metaphor

"The metaphor reveals a world behind the world of things."

By Mateo Askaripour | April 10, 2019

Annie Proulx on Freewheeling<br> Nature Writer Ellen Meloy

Annie Proulx on Freewheeling
Nature Writer Ellen Meloy

"Some of the essays seem to have been written last week, so fresh are the topics."

By Annie Proulx | April 10, 2019

Svetlana Alexievich in Praise<br> of Maxim Osipov

Svetlana Alexievich in Praise
of Maxim Osipov

On the Russian Doctor Who Treats His Characters Like His Patients

By Svetlana Alexievich | April 9, 2019

Serial Killer As Instagram Influencer? On <em>Killing Eve</em>'s Cool Girl Assassin

Serial Killer As Instagram Influencer? On Killing Eve's Cool Girl Assassin

Rachel Vorona Cote: "It can be dangerous to hold someone, fictional or real, in esteem for superficial reasons."

By Rachel Vorona Cote | April 8, 2019

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