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Googling Literary Lesbians: <br>On Carson McCullers and the Erotics of Incompletion

Googling Literary Lesbians:
On Carson McCullers and the Erotics of Incompletion

Sarah Heying Asks "The Sappho Question"

By Sarah Heying | February 4, 2020

Jane Austen, Gritty Educational Reformer of the Working Class

Jane Austen, Gritty Educational Reformer of the Working Class

Janine Barchas on How the Proliferation of Penny Editions
Brought Literature to the Masses

By Janine Barchas | February 4, 2020

Capitalism Has Distorted Desire in the #MeToo Era

Capitalism Has Distorted Desire in the #MeToo Era

A Brief History of Literary Seduction

By Clement Knox | February 4, 2020

The Oxford Professor Who Kept Tabs on His Student—Who Turned Out To Be a Conman

The Oxford Professor Who Kept Tabs on His Student—Who Turned Out To Be a Conman

The (Mostly Unknowable) Life of a Fraud

By Adam Sisman | February 3, 2020

What the Great Russian Writers Didn't Get About the Criminal Mind

What the Great Russian Writers Didn't Get About the Criminal Mind

Varlam Shamalov Served 15 Years in a Soviet Labor Camp

By Varlam Shalamov | February 3, 2020

How We Learned to Start Fearing the Bomb, Again

How We Learned to Start Fearing the Bomb, Again

Fred Kaplan on the Nuclear First-Strike Dilemma

By Fred M. Kaplan | January 31, 2020

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The Professor Who Smuggled Intellectuals Out of<br> Nazi-Occupied France

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Justus Rosenberg's Time in the Pyrenees: Walter Benjamin, Heinrich Mann, and More

By Justus Rosenberg | January 30, 2020

Jack London's Call to Service and Humanism

Jack London's Call to Service and Humanism

From the Introduction to Upton Sinclair's 1915 Anthology of Justice

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When Did Self-Help Books Become Literary?

When Did Self-Help Books Become Literary?

Beth Blum on a Debate Over Bookish Advice That Goes
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The Italian Women Who Resisted the Nazis with Stones and Willpower

The Italian Women Who Resisted the Nazis with Stones and Willpower

Caroline Moorehead on an Untold Story of the Second World War

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The Private Cost of Public Heroism: On Rosa Parks' Life in Detroit

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Susan Reyburn Follows the Life of a Civil Rights Icon

By Susan Reyburn | January 28, 2020

Rewiring the American Mind: On Tracy K. Smith and the Future of America’s Civic Identity

Rewiring the American Mind: On Tracy K. Smith and the Future of America’s Civic Identity

Jonathan Reiber Considers the State of the Union in the Most Important Election Year in Its History

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Did Tolkien Write <em>The Lord of the Rings</em> Because He Was Avoiding His Academic Work?

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