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An Unnecessarily Close Reading of <em>That</em> Scene in <em>Portnoy's Complaint</em>

An Unnecessarily Close Reading of That Scene in Portnoy's Complaint

Chopped Meat Through the Kosher Grinder

By Emily Temple | January 11, 2019

How Do You Set James Joyce’s Most Famous Story on the Stage?

How Do You Set James Joyce’s Most Famous Story on the Stage?

Feasting with the Ghosts of “The Dead”

By Leslie Pariseau | January 10, 2019

An Oddly Poetic Account of Colorblindness from the Turn of the Last Century

An Oddly Poetic Account of Colorblindness from the Turn of the Last Century

the music of light."">"We may aptly term color the music of light."

By Emily Noyes Vanderpoel | January 10, 2019

Why Does Women's Writing About Relationships Need to be “Relatable”?

Why Does Women's Writing About Relationships Need to be “Relatable”?

Hint: It's a Word Men Use to Describe Their Writing in Order to Diminish It

By Blythe Roberson | January 10, 2019

The Unexpected Literary Pleasure of Marijuana Reviews

The Unexpected Literary Pleasure of Marijuana Reviews

Walk With Us Through a Transcendent Corner of the Internet

By Taylor Lannamann | January 9, 2019

Marcel Proust Was Almost Impossible to Edit

Marcel Proust Was Almost Impossible to Edit

Carol Clark on the Challenges of Editing and Translating The Prisoner

By Carol Clark | January 8, 2019

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On the Freaky Foods of Fictional Worlds

By Lizzy Saxe | January 7, 2019

Toward an Expanded Canon of Black Literature

By Mateo Askaripour | January 3, 2019

Reading Feminist Futurism in the Age of the “Female” Virtual Assistant

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On Dickens’ Demons and Weird Relationship with Christmas

On Dickens’ Demons and Weird Relationship with Christmas

A Close Reading of A Christmas Carol

By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst | December 20, 2018

What Happened to the Original Version of <em>The Waste Land</em>?

What Happened to the Original Version of The Waste Land?

On One of Literature's "Minor Mysteries"

By Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue | December 19, 2018

Can the Establishment Embrace its Critics?

Can the Establishment Embrace its Critics?

Alejandro Zambra and Preti Taneja on
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Stop Trying to Make <i>Pride and Prejudice</i> a Christmas Story

Stop Trying to Make Pride and Prejudice a Christmas Story

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On Sylvia Plath and the Many Shades of Depression

On Sylvia Plath and the Many Shades of Depression

Gabrielle Bellot Considers How a Writer's Work is Measured Against Her Death

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 13, 2018

Oliverio Girondo's Absurd Cosmopolitan World

Oliverio Girondo's Absurd Cosmopolitan World

Meet the Flamboyant Poet of the Argentine Avant-Garde

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Rewriting Trauma: The Business of Storytelling in the Age of the Algorithm

Rewriting Trauma: The Business of Storytelling in the Age of the Algorithm

Screenwriter James Schamus on What Goes Into the TV You're Binge-Watching

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