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Caliban Never Belonged to Shakespeare

Caliban Never Belonged to Shakespeare

What Shakespeare's "Thing of Darkness" Tells Us About Gatekeeping and Language

By Marcos Gonsalez | July 26, 2019

Got Writer's Block? <br>Read This Poem

Got Writer's Block?
Read This Poem

Nick Ripatrazone Close Reads Gerard Manley Hopkins' "To R.B."

By Nick Ripatrazone | July 25, 2019

On One of the Great Dutch Novels of Social Reform

On One of the Great Dutch Novels of Social Reform

How Eduard Douwes Dekker's Max Havelaar Led to a Revolution

By Pramoedya Ananta Toer | July 25, 2019

Love, Death, and the Birds of Terry Tempest Williams

Love, Death, and the Birds of Terry Tempest Williams

Randon Billings Noble: What of the Raven, What of the Dove?

By Randon Billings Noble | July 24, 2019

On My 42-Year Correspondence with W.S. Merwin

On My 42-Year Correspondence with W.S. Merwin

Howard Norman Reflects on the Collective Meaning of 416 Letters

By Howard Norman | July 24, 2019

Please Take This Summer to Become Obsessed<br> With <em>The Group</em>

Please Take This Summer to Become Obsessed
With The Group

Mary McMarthy's 1960s Novel About the 1930s Feels Like 2019

By Mikaella Clements | July 23, 2019

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My Life as Poet Laureate (of a Law Firm)

By Elizabeth Bales Frank | July 23, 2019

Was The Odyssey the First Greek Novel?

By Michael Wood | July 22, 2019

George Orwell and More in the Borderlands of Life and Death

By Andrew Ervin | July 22, 2019

A Poet and a Novelist Discuss the Literary Allure of Outer Space

A Poet and a Novelist Discuss the Literary Allure of Outer Space

Gale Marie Thompson and Zach Powers Get Spacey

By Zach Powers and Gale Marie Thompson | July 19, 2019

My Niece Is Probably the Reincarnation of Shirley Jackson

My Niece Is Probably the Reincarnation of Shirley Jackson

CJ Hauser on Motherhood and The Haunting of Hill House

By CJ Hauser | July 18, 2019

The Fictional Singer-Songwriter Who Got Her Own Real Album

The Fictional Singer-Songwriter Who Got Her Own Real Album

Laura Barnett on Creating the Musician She'd Always Dreamed About

By Laura Barnett | July 18, 2019

How Contemporary Poetry Treats the Old Myths of the American Railroad

How Contemporary Poetry Treats the Old Myths of the American Railroad

Thomas Dai on the Poems of Kai Carlson-Wee and Jenny Xie

By Thomas Dai | July 17, 2019

Mukoma Wa Ngugi: On the Poem That Made Me Fall in Love with Words

Mukoma Wa Ngugi: On the Poem That Made Me Fall in Love with Words

A Close Reading of Sonia Sanchez's "Poem at Thirty"

By Mukoma Wa Ngugi | July 17, 2019

What Hemingway Cut From <em>For Whom the Bell Tolls</em>

What Hemingway Cut From For Whom the Bell Tolls

An Epilogue, For Starters

By Seán Hemingway | July 16, 2019

Brazil's History Is Ahead of It, Not Behind

Brazil's History Is Ahead of It, Not Behind

Geovani Martins on Finding Joy in a Beautiful, Struggling Nation

By Geovani Martins | July 16, 2019

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