How Mermaid Stories Illustrate Complex Truths About<br> Being Human

How Mermaid Stories Illustrate Complex Truths About
Being Human

The Tropes, Tricks, and Tools We Find in Tales of Merfolk

By Cristina Bacchilega | October 25, 2019

On Reconfiguring the Modernist Flaneur and Writing in a<br> Post-Truth Age

On Reconfiguring the Modernist Flaneur and Writing in a
Post-Truth Age

Jana Prikryl and Joanna Kavenna in Conversation

By Joanna Kavenna | October 25, 2019

On the Many Different Engines That Power a Short Story

On the Many Different Engines That Power a Short Story

It's Not Just Plot or Character That Drives Fiction

By Lincoln Michel | October 24, 2019

The Yale Younger Poets Prize: A Microcosm of the American Poetry Landscape

The Yale Younger Poets Prize: A Microcosm of the American Poetry Landscape

Carl Phillips on Who's Winning the Oldest Annual Literary Award in America

By Carl Phillips | October 23, 2019

On the Countercultural Influence of <em>Peanuts</em>

On the Countercultural Influence of Peanuts

David Ulin Considers Linus, Boy Philosopher

By David L. Ulin | October 22, 2019

On the Darkness, Strangeness, and Unbridled Joy of Children's Books

On the Darkness, Strangeness, and Unbridled Joy of Children's Books

Cara Hoffman Gets Real About Talking Mice

By Cara Hoffman | October 22, 2019

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Remembering Kate Braverman's Los Angeles

By Liska Jacobs | October 22, 2019

Alejandro Zambra on One of the Great Diarists of the 20th Century

By Alejandro Zambra | October 22, 2019

Marguerite Duras: Internet Essayist?

By Maddie Crum | October 21, 2019

Capturing Natural Coincidences, in Fiction and Life

Capturing Natural Coincidences, in Fiction and Life

Martha Cooley on the Vajont Disaster, Julio Cortazar, and the Strange Power of Serendipity

By Martha Cooley | October 21, 2019

Do Printed-Out Emails Count As Letters? (Yes)

Do Printed-Out Emails Count As Letters? (Yes)

Dheepa Maturi on the Value of Epistolary Correspondence,
in What Ever Form

By Dheepa R. Maturi | October 21, 2019

On the Sexist Reception of Willa Cather's World War I Novel

On the Sexist Reception of Willa Cather's World War I Novel

From Hemingway to Mencken, No One Thought a Woman Could Write About Combat

By Rebecca Onion | October 21, 2019

On J.M. Coetzee's <em>Age of Iron</em>: Perennially, Lamentably, Current

On J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron: Perennially, Lamentably, Current

John Freeman Rereads a Contemporary Classic

By John Freeman | October 18, 2019

Orwell's Notes on <em>1984</em>: Mapping the Inspiration of a Modern Classic

Orwell's Notes on 1984: Mapping the Inspiration of a Modern Classic

objective truth."">"The nightmare feeling caused by the disappearance of
objective truth."

By D.J. Taylor | October 18, 2019

How Beth Brant Uplifted the Voices of Native American Queer Women

How Beth Brant Uplifted the Voices of Native American Queer Women

On Taking a More Inclusive Approach to Indigenous Writing

By Janice Gould | October 18, 2019

The Hungarian Author Who Foresaw the Future of Nationalism

The Hungarian Author Who Foresaw the Future of Nationalism

Considering Krisztina Tóth's Pointed Case for Open Borders

By Stephanie Newman | October 17, 2019

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