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Sense <em>or</em> Sensibility... What if Jane Austen Had to Choose?

Sense or Sensibility... What if Jane Austen Had to Choose?

Devoney Looser Considers the Mind vs. the Heart

By Devoney Looser | February 11, 2019

Marriage Isn't the Only Plot for Love

Marriage Isn't the Only Plot for Love

Reading Briallen Hopper and Rethinking Love

By Kristen Martin | February 11, 2019

What Barry Jenkins Missed in His Adaptation of <em>If Beale Street Could Talk</em>

What Barry Jenkins Missed in His Adaptation of If Beale Street Could Talk

Gabrielle Bellot Thinks James Baldwin Deserves Better

By Gabrielle Bellot | February 8, 2019

The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Faulkner's <em>The Sound and the Fury</em>

The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

Harry Potter, you know?"">"This isn't Harry Potter, you know?"

By Emily Temple | February 8, 2019

On the Anxiety and Vanity of Marcel Proust, Debut Novelist

On the Anxiety and Vanity of Marcel Proust, Debut Novelist

World Wars Aren't Necessarily Bad for Groundbreaking Novel Cycles

By William C. Carter | February 7, 2019

In Praise of the Difficult: On Marianne Moore, Defiant Poet of Complexity

In Praise of the Difficult: On Marianne Moore, Defiant Poet of Complexity

Gabrielle Bellot: "I’m accustomed to difficulty."

By Gabrielle Bellot | February 5, 2019

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Empathy Exams: On Fictionalizing Extremists

By Tobias Carroll | February 1, 2019

On Danticat, Camus, and the Art of Exile

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 30, 2019

When Even the Greatest of Writers Grapples with Self-Doubt

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 28, 2019

Deconstructing Old Stories to Tell Them in New Ways

Deconstructing Old Stories to Tell Them in New Ways

Daisy Johnson on the Limits of the Wholly New

By Daisy Johnson | January 25, 2019

How Virginia Woolf Taught Me to Mourn

How Virginia Woolf Taught Me to Mourn

Two Writers Grieving for a Parent, a Century Apart

By Katharine Smyth | January 25, 2019

Lessons From a Newly-Discovered Sylvia Plath Story

Lessons From a Newly-Discovered Sylvia Plath Story

It Would Be Easy to Write It Off—But We Shouldn't.

By Emily Van Duyne | January 24, 2019

On the Overlooked Eroticism of Mary Oliver

On the Overlooked Eroticism of Mary Oliver

Poetry as Affirmation of Queer Desire

By Jeanna Kadlec | January 23, 2019

What We Don't Know About Sylvia Plath

What We Don't Know About Sylvia Plath

On Revelations from a Chance Graveside Encounter

By Emily Van Duyne | January 22, 2019

David Treuer on the Myth of an Edenic, Pre-Columbian 'New' World

David Treuer on the Myth of an Edenic, Pre-Columbian 'New' World

Indigenous American Civilizations Are Far Older and More Complex Than History Suggests

By David Treuer | January 22, 2019

John McPhee: Seven Ways of Looking at a Writer

John McPhee: Seven Ways of Looking at a Writer

“I write about real people in real places. End of story.”

By Tyler Malone | January 17, 2019

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