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On Dickens’ Demons and Weird Relationship with Christmas

On Dickens’ Demons and Weird Relationship with Christmas

A Close Reading of A Christmas Carol

By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst | December 20, 2018

What Happened to the Original Version of <em>The Waste Land</em>?

What Happened to the Original Version of The Waste Land?

On One of Literature's "Minor Mysteries"

By Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue | December 19, 2018

Can the Establishment Embrace its Critics?

Can the Establishment Embrace its Critics?

Alejandro Zambra and Preti Taneja on
Authority, Shakespeare, Neoliberalism and More

By Alejandro Zambra and Preti Taneja | December 19, 2018

Stop Trying to Make <i>Pride and Prejudice</i> a Christmas Story

Stop Trying to Make Pride and Prejudice a Christmas Story

It's Not, No Matter What Hallmark Does

By Devoney Looser | December 17, 2018

On Sylvia Plath and the Many Shades of Depression

On Sylvia Plath and the Many Shades of Depression

Gabrielle Bellot Considers How a Writer's Work is Measured Against Her Death

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 13, 2018

Oliverio Girondo's Absurd Cosmopolitan World

Oliverio Girondo's Absurd Cosmopolitan World

Meet the Flamboyant Poet of the Argentine Avant-Garde

By Harris Feinsod and Rachel Galvin | December 13, 2018

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Rewriting Trauma: The Business of Storytelling in the Age of the Algorithm

By James Schamus | December 12, 2018

On James Baldwin's Dispatches from the Heart of the Civil Rights Movement

By Ed Pavlić | December 10, 2018

Poet of the Disappeared: On the Writing of Raúl Zurita

By Norma Cole | December 7, 2018

Of Willa Cather's Lasting Love For the Frontier

Of Willa Cather's Lasting Love For the Frontier

"I Do Think My Heart Never Got Across the Missouri River.”

By Catherine Pond | December 7, 2018

Looking for God in the Writing of Denis Johnson

Looking for God in the Writing of Denis Johnson

"Eternity, in Johnson’s work, is a thing you can hold in your hands."

By Aaron Thier | December 5, 2018

What Was Virginia Woolf Looking for in the Night Sky?

What Was Virginia Woolf Looking for in the Night Sky?

On Her Obsession with Astronomy

By Josh Wilbur | December 4, 2018

A Close-Reading of <em>The Talented Mr. Ripley</em> as Coming of Age Story

A Close-Reading of The Talented Mr. Ripley as Coming of Age Story

Dickie Greenleaf! Is It Really You?

By Emily Temple | November 30, 2018

How to Be an African Travel Writer in Africa?

How to Be an African Travel Writer in Africa?

Emmanuel Iduma Surveys a Complicated Oeuvre

By Emmanuel Iduma | November 29, 2018

The Avid Reader: Helen Schulman on <em>As I Lay Dying</em>

The Avid Reader: Helen Schulman on As I Lay Dying

Discovering Faulkner in College Can Very Much Change Your Life

By Helen Schulman | November 29, 2018

Does Art Originate From the Same Necessity That Gives Rise to Beehives?

Does Art Originate From the Same Necessity That Gives Rise to Beehives?

Inger Christensen Meditates on the Importance of Creation

By Inger Christensen | November 27, 2018

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