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Seeking Insight on Disastrous Love, from Literature and Psychoanalysis

Seeking Insight on Disastrous Love, from Literature and Psychoanalysis

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By Robin Kirman | February 24, 2022

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Nonsense, Puns, and Dirty Limericks: A Serious Look at Poetic Wordplay

Brad Leithauser Considers the Comedy of Verse

By Brad Leithauser | February 23, 2022

A History of Demonology is a History of the World

A History of Demonology is a History of the World

Ed Simon Offers a Demonic Poetics

By Ed Simon | February 23, 2022

Cranly’s Arm: On Finding and Seeking Gay Desire in Joyce

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Paul McAdory Considers Ambiguous Subtext and Unwavering Belief

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By Book Marks | February 22, 2022

Joy Lanzendorfer on the Gendered Double Standard of Ambition

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Anna Holmes on the Radical Life of Margaret Wise Brown

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David Ulin on Joan Didion, California, Counterculture, and the Essay Form

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Getting By in Prison With Nothing But Books

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What Banning <em>Maus</em> Means for the Generation of Artists It Inspired

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