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The Beats' Holy Grail: The Letter That Inspired <em>On the Road</em>

The Beats' Holy Grail: The Letter That Inspired On the Road

On Neal Cassady's Rediscovered "Joan Anderson Letter"

By David L. Ulin | October 5, 2018

When a Stranger Showed Up in Our Home

When a Stranger Showed Up in Our Home

Michael Donkor on Interlopers, in Fiction and In Life

By Michael Donkor | October 5, 2018

The Queerness of Ernest Hemingway

The Queerness of Ernest Hemingway

"Hemingway came from dykes and to dykes he shall return."

By Mikaella Clements | October 4, 2018

The Avid Reader: Helen Simpson on Anton Chekhov's

The Avid Reader: Helen Simpson on Anton Chekhov's "Oysters"

Essential Reading Advice from Our Favorite Writers

By Helen Simpson | October 4, 2018

The Dry-Eyed Mourning of Gary Indiana

The Dry-Eyed Mourning of Gary Indiana

Sarah Nicole Prickett on Indiana's Novel Gone Tomorrow

By Sarah Nicole Prickett | October 4, 2018

Roxane Gay: What Does a Political Story Look like in 2018?

Roxane Gay: What Does a Political Story Look like in 2018?

On Selecting This Year's 20 Best American Short Stories

By Roxane Gay | October 3, 2018

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How Lee Krasner Made Jackson Pollock a Star

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The Gordon Lish Lineage of Jewish American Writing

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Nietzsche, Adorno, and a Horse Walk Into a Valley...

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Where, Exactly, is the Overlap Between Storytelling and Technology?

On Writing in a New Dark Age

By Tobias Carroll | September 24, 2018

Our Love of True Stories Has Destroyed Our Sense of Truth

Our Love of True Stories Has Destroyed Our Sense of Truth

Rebecca Wolff on Octavia Butler, Digital Emptiness, and the Unreality of the End Times

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Please Stop Talking About the

Please Stop Talking About the "Rise" of African Science Fiction

Tade Thompson Breaks It Down: African SFF Has Always Been Here

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Kafka’s Last Wish, Brod’s First Betrayal

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What Do Superheroes and Zombies Have to Do With the End of the World?

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Peter Biskind on Pop Culture's Obsession with How It All Ends

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On the Third Most Popular Poet of All Time

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