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

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

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

Screenwriter James Schamus on What Goes Into the TV You're Binge-Watching

By James Schamus | December 12, 2018

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

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

The Making of an Iconic Essayist

By Ed Pavlić | December 10, 2018

Poet of the Disappeared: On the Writing of Raúl Zurita

Poet of the Disappeared: On the Writing of Raúl Zurita

"There is power and agency in staying in a dangerous place when one has the choice to leave."

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

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How to Be an African Travel Writer in Africa?

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Emmanuel Iduma Surveys a Complicated Oeuvre

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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

Why Look at Art When You Could Watch TV?

Why Look at Art When You Could Watch TV?

On John Berger's Revolutionary Art Criticism

By Joshua Sperling | November 26, 2018

Revisiting the Genius of <em>Middlemarch</em>

Revisiting the Genius of Middlemarch

On the Occasion of George Eliot's 199th Birthday Eve

By John Mullan | November 21, 2018

Stop Dismissing Inclusive Children's Books as 'Too Political'

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Librarian Erinn Salge on the Importance of Seeing Yourself on the Page

By Erinn Salge | November 21, 2018

Before the Neapolitan Quartet, There Was <em>Sula</em>

Before the Neapolitan Quartet, There Was Sula

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