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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

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Brazil's History Is Ahead of It, Not Behind

By Geovani Martins | July 16, 2019

A.S. Byatt on Iris Murdoch's
The Bell

By A. S. Byatt | July 15, 2019

An Object Lesson in Naming Novels: Iris Murdoch's
The Sea, The Sea

By Emily Temple | July 15, 2019

Michael Cunningham on the Novel That Would Become <em>Mrs Dalloway</em>

Michael Cunningham on the Novel That Would Become Mrs Dalloway

With Images from the Original Manuscript of "The Hours"

By Michael Cunningham | July 15, 2019

Why a 1980s Novel of Dystopian Patriarchy Still Speaks to Women Today

Why a 1980s Novel of Dystopian Patriarchy Still Speaks to Women Today

Leni Zumas on a New Edition of Suzette Haden Elgin's The Judas Rose

By Leni Zumas | July 15, 2019

Dear Internet: <em>The Little Mermaid</em> Also Happens to Be Queer Allegory

Dear Internet: The Little Mermaid Also Happens to Be Queer Allegory

On the Origins of Hans Christian Andersen's Fable
of Frustrated Affection

By Gabrielle Bellot | July 12, 2019

To Tell the Story of a Brother<br> I Will Never Know

To Tell the Story of a Brother
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Marian Ryan in Berlin, Reading Han Kang

By Marian Ryan | July 12, 2019

Why Report on Desire? Saskia Vogel on Reading Lisa Taddeo

Why Report on Desire? Saskia Vogel on Reading Lisa Taddeo

“We’re all capable of throwing everything away in a moment, if the desire is strong enough.”

By Saskia Vogel | July 12, 2019

The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of <em>To Kill a Mockingbird</em>

The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of To Kill a Mockingbird

"I would recommend reading this if you have no life and if you want to torture yourself."

By Emily Temple | July 11, 2019

Finding Small Comfort in the Panic of Shirley Jackson

Finding Small Comfort in the Panic of Shirley Jackson

Miciah Bay Gault on the High Anxiety of The Haunting of Hill House

By Miciah Bay Gault | July 11, 2019

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