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Spurned in Love, Edith Wharton Turned to Poetry

Spurned in Love, Edith Wharton Turned to Poetry

Irene Goldman-Price on Wharton's Little-Known Book of Poems on Love, Loss, and Regret

By Irene Goldman-Price | July 9, 2019

Nadifa Mohamed and Aleksandar Hemon: What It Means to Be Displaced

Nadifa Mohamed and Aleksandar Hemon: What It Means to Be Displaced

On Community, Violence, and Telling Stories of Trauma

By Literary Hub | July 1, 2019

In Cairo, the Garbage Collector Knows Everything

In Cairo, the Garbage Collector Knows Everything

Peter Hessler on the Lives of a Neighborhood, Seen Through the Trash

By Peter Hessler | July 1, 2019

We All Really Need to Reread George Orwell's <em>1984</em>

We All Really Need to Reread George Orwell's 1984

Dorian Lynskey on How the Message of a Book Can Change Radically Over Time

By Dorian Lynskey | June 27, 2019

How the Alphabet Helped Virginia Woolf Understand<br> Her Father

How the Alphabet Helped Virginia Woolf Understand
Her Father

On the Poetry of a Precocious Nine-Year-Old

By Jacquelyn Ardam | June 26, 2019

The Rocket Scientist Who Had to Elude the FBI Before He Could Escape Earth

The Rocket Scientist Who Had to Elude the FBI Before He Could Escape Earth

Frank Malina's Scientific Dreams Were as Radical as His Politics

By Fraser MacDonald | June 26, 2019

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The Complex Queer Literary History of Fire Island

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On America's Wild West of Dinosaur Fossil Hunting

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What Was Hemingway Doing in Cuba During World War II?

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(A Navy Reconnaissance Mission Named After a Cat, Apparently)

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The Anti-Capitalist Power of Jean de La Ville de Mirmont's Fiction

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André Naffis-Sahely on His New Translation of a Long-Neglected Existentialist Novella

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Views of Stonewall from Rita Mae Brown, Cheryl Clarke, Alexis De Veaux,
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By Corinne Segal | June 19, 2019

So, Gutenberg Didn’t Actually Invent Printing As We Know It

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On the Unsung Chinese and Korean History of Movable Type

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Why Does a Language Die?

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On the Slow Demise of Tayap in Papua New Guinea

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