When We Read the Bible as Literature, Do We Retain Its Truths?

When We Read the Bible as Literature, Do We Retain Its Truths?

Jay Parini on John Barton's New History of the Bible

By Jay Parini | June 6, 2019

70 Years of Misapplied Allegory: Happy Birthday <em>1984</em>!

70 Years of Misapplied Allegory: Happy Birthday 1984!

John Rodden on the Ways We Use Orwell to Talk About American Presidents

By John Rodden | June 5, 2019

On Becoming a Writer in the Middle of War

On Becoming a Writer in the Middle of War

Hanan al-Shaykh on Arab Feminism, Pigeonholing Women Writers, and More

By Hanan al-Shaykh | June 5, 2019

Pablo Neruda's Life as a Struggling Poet in Sri Lanka

Pablo Neruda's Life as a Struggling Poet in Sri Lanka

A Young Poet's Adventures in the Foreign Service

By Jamie James | June 3, 2019

A Kafkaesque List of Things Described as Kafkaesque

A Kafkaesque List of Things Described as Kafkaesque

"Slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life."

By Emily Temple | June 3, 2019

The Dark Side of the <br>Chinese Dream

The Dark Side of the
Chinese Dream

Ma Jian on the Short Path from Utopia to Dystopia

By Ma Jian | June 3, 2019

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How Ayn Rand Became the Spirit of Our Time

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Why I Had to Grow Up Before I Could Appreciate Alice Munro

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The Unlikely Winner of the World's Toughest Horse Race

The Unlikely Winner of the World's Toughest Horse Race

Alyson Hagy on Rough Magic, Unruly Women, and the Beauty of Horses

By Alyson Hagy | May 30, 2019

The Radical Power of Writing in the First-Person Plural

The Radical Power of Writing in the First-Person Plural

Lynn Steger Strong on New Books By Jamil Zaki and Christian Kiefer

By Lynn Steger Strong | May 30, 2019

On Walt Whitman, Unsung Newspaperman

On Walt Whitman, Unsung Newspaperman

Understanding the Poet as a Journalist, in 2019

By Philip Eil | May 29, 2019

What Gets Lost (and Found) in Translating Prose to Comics

What Gets Lost (and Found) in Translating Prose to Comics

Tobias Carroll on the Generative Power of Literary Adaptation

By Tobias Carroll | May 29, 2019

Vasily Grossman and the Plight of Soviet Jewish Scientists

Vasily Grossman and the Plight of Soviet Jewish Scientists

The Tragic Tale of the Physicist Lev Shtrum

By Alexandra Popoff and Tatiana Dettmer | May 29, 2019

Jim Harrison's Last Poems—of Love and the Earth—Are the Arguments We Should Be Having

Jim Harrison's Last Poems—of Love and the Earth—Are the Arguments We Should Be Having

Dean Kuipers Reads the Poet's Posthumous Collection

By Dean Kuipers | May 28, 2019

Hiking Cormac McCarthy's Western Wilderness During an Immigration Crisis

Hiking Cormac McCarthy's Western Wilderness During an Immigration Crisis

Raksha Vasudevan on Coming Face-to-Face With the Myths that Make America

By Raksha Vasudevan | May 28, 2019

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