On Bob Dylan's Literary Influences

On Bob Dylan's Literary Influences

From William Blake to Jack Kerouac

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The Banality of Donald Trump

The Banality of Donald Trump

On Hannah Arendt's Birthday, Examining her Relevance to our Political Moment

By Rafia Zakaria | October 14, 2016

So Who Exactly is Bob Dylan, Newly Crowned Nobel Laureate?

So Who Exactly is Bob Dylan, Newly Crowned Nobel Laureate?

The Poet vs. Songwriter vs. Showman Debate Rages On

By Lisa Levy | October 13, 2016

Jonathan Lethem on the Lost Conversations of Ross Macdonald

Jonathan Lethem on the Lost Conversations of Ross Macdonald

Getting Inside the Head of a 20th-Century Literary Master

By Kevin Avery | October 13, 2016

Lean in, Swipe Right: On Tinder and the Politics of Singledom

Lean in, Swipe Right: On Tinder and the Politics of Singledom

Bridget Read Considers the Future of Sex, and Emily Witt's Future Sex

By Bridget Read | October 13, 2016

It Breaks Before it Bends: On Donika Kelly's Black Girl Poetry

It Breaks Before it Bends: On Donika Kelly's Black Girl Poetry

Nikky Finney in Praise of a Psalm of Pure Resolve

By Nikky Finney | October 13, 2016

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David L. Ulin on the Baffling Impulse to Unmask a Beloved Writer

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On the Heterodox Jewishness of Clarice Lispector

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A Writer of the Diaspora, In Search of God

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Elizabeth Greenwood on the middle-aged fantasy of pseudocide

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How <em>Peyton Place</em> Comforted Me as a Closeted Teenager

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Revisiting Grace Metalious's Notorious Novel 60 Years Later

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Edith Wharton's Indictment of Gilded Age Inequality: Still Relevant

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On The House of Mirth, Thomas Piketty, and the Literature of Income Inequality

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