On Percival Everett’s Almost Secret Experiment in a Novel<br> in Threes

On Percival Everett’s Almost Secret Experiment in a Novel
in Threes

David Lerner Schwartz on the Tripartite Puzzle That is Telephone

By David Lerner Schwartz | August 20, 2020

If You Want to See Who Someone Really Is, Get Them on a Tennis Court

If You Want to See Who Someone Really Is, Get Them on a Tennis Court

Professional Tennis Player Andrea Petkovic on Reading Philip Roth
and Finding Hard Truths

By Andrea Petkovic | August 20, 2020

Breaking Down the Roiling, Emotional Middle of a James Baldwin Narrative

Breaking Down the Roiling, Emotional Middle of a James Baldwin Narrative

Daniel Joshua Rubin on If Beale Street Could Talk

By Daniel Joshua Rubin | August 19, 2020

In Defense of Psychoanalysis and Writing Freudian Fiction

In Defense of Psychoanalysis and Writing Freudian Fiction

Jessica Gross Goes Deep to Figure It All Out

By Jessica Gross | August 19, 2020

<em>Mrs. Bridge</em> Is a Perfect Novel. But How Does It Work?

Mrs. Bridge Is a Perfect Novel. But How Does It Work?

Unpacking an Underread American Classic

By Emily Temple | August 18, 2020

The Literature of Elder Care is Often About Shifting Power Dynamics

The Literature of Elder Care is Often About Shifting Power Dynamics

Ellyn Lem on Works by Shakespeare, Lauren Fox, and Others

By Ellyn A. Lem | August 17, 2020

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Black Lives Matter in the Public Theater’s <em>Much Ado About Nothing</em>

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Five Perspectives on Race and Shakespeare in 2020

By Arsh Dhillon, Phillip Michalak, Bernadette Looney, Sonia Kangaju, and Charles Onesti | August 14, 2020

John Giorno: Fighting the Battle of Gay Liberation in a Homophobic World

John Giorno: Fighting the Battle of Gay Liberation in a Homophobic World

Mark Dery on Great Demon Kings, the Memoir of an Icon

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How the Corvette Helped Create Southern California Cool

How the Corvette Helped Create Southern California Cool

Peter Lunenfeld on Joan Didion and Angelyne

By Peter Lunenfeld | August 13, 2020

Nathalie Sarraute: Between Genders and Genres

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Ann Jefferson on the Author's Early Tropisms

By Ann Jefferson | August 13, 2020

Yearning for My Grandmother Muriel Rukeyser (and Grappling With Her Legacy)

Yearning for My Grandmother Muriel Rukeyser (and Grappling With Her Legacy)

Rebecca Rukeyser Confronts the History of Her Own Family

By Rebecca Rukeyser | August 12, 2020

Cree LeFavour on the Pleasures of the Limitless Reread

Cree LeFavour on the Pleasures of the Limitless Reread

The Author of Private Means Recommends Her Favorite Books to Revisit

By Cree LeFavour | August 12, 2020

40 Hamlets, Ranked

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"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

By Emily Temple | August 11, 2020

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