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A Close Reading of the Best Short Story Ever Written

A Close Reading of the Best Short Story Ever Written

From Your Resident Donald Barthelme Stan

By Emily Temple | July 25, 2018

In Praise of

In Praise of "Plain" Heroines: Why Mary is my Favorite Bennet Sister

She May Be Bookish, But She's Not Quiet

By Katherine J. Chen | July 23, 2018

Everything You Think You Know About Chekhov is Wrong

Everything You Think You Know About Chekhov is Wrong

Boris Fishman Wonders, What Would Chekhov Say of Vladimir Putin?

By Boris Fishman | July 23, 2018

Fake News, Hyper-Patriotism, and War: America in 1918

Fake News, Hyper-Patriotism, and War: America in 1918

Katherine Anne Porter's Pale Horse, Pale Rider, a Novel of Now

By John Domini | July 23, 2018

On the Art and Influence of Hemingway’s Short Stories

On the Art and Influence of Hemingway’s Short Stories

Looking Past the Biography, at the Sentences Themselves

By John Mariani | July 20, 2018

The Patron Saints of Pessimism: A Writer's Pantheon

The Patron Saints of Pessimism: A Writer's Pantheon

Emil Cioran, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Other Funsters

By Eugene Thacker | July 19, 2018

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My Book of Men: On the Poetry of Survival

By Liz Bowen | July 18, 2018

What Can We Salvage of Objectivity?

By Michiko Kakutani | July 17, 2018

The 100 Best One-Star Reviews of The Catcher in the Rye

By Emily Temple | July 16, 2018

Watching <em>The Handmaid's Tale</em> While Transitioning

Watching The Handmaid's Tale While Transitioning

Veronica Esposito on Encountering Misogyny in a New Way

By Veronica Esposito | July 16, 2018

Forget Zorro: Joaquín Murieta is the Outlaw-Hero We Need

Forget Zorro: Joaquín Murieta is the Outlaw-Hero We Need

Diana Gabaldon on a Neglected Classic by John Rollin Ridge

By Diana Gabaldon | July 16, 2018

How Can Fiction Predict a Future That's Already Happening?

How Can Fiction Predict a Future That's Already Happening?

Andromeda Romano-Lax on the Real Stakes of Speculative Fiction

By Andromeda Romano-Lax | July 13, 2018

Why I Added, Then Deleted, Trump from My Novel

Why I Added, Then Deleted, Trump from My Novel

"These Additions, My Agent Noted, Were Not Very Good"

By Andrew Martin | July 10, 2018

Not Everyone Loves Proust

Not Everyone Loves Proust

Crushingly dull. Rather infantile. A mental defective?

By Emily Temple | July 10, 2018

Lyn Hejinian: Everything is Imminent in Anything

Lyn Hejinian: Everything is Imminent in Anything

An Essay on Fending Off Chaos

By Lyn Hejinian | July 5, 2018

Holden Caulfield: Egotistical Whiner or Melancholy Boy Genius?

Holden Caulfield: Egotistical Whiner or Melancholy Boy Genius?

From Jesus-Figure to Incestuous Impulses, 13 Critics Weigh In

By Emily Temple | July 2, 2018

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