The Polish Army Officer Who Conjured Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

The Polish Army Officer Who Conjured Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

On Józef Czapski's Wartime Lectures

By Eric Karpeles | November 7, 2018

Haiku: The Evolution of a Strict Poetic Game

Haiku: The Evolution of a Strict Poetic Game

From Bashō to Salinger and Everything in Between

By Hiroaki Sato | November 5, 2018

Literary Magazines Are Born to Die

Literary Magazines Are Born to Die

Five Defunct Journals We Should Not Forget

By Nick Ripatrazone | November 2, 2018

The Avid Reader: Sandra Cisneros on Elena Poniatowska

The Avid Reader: Sandra Cisneros on Elena Poniatowska

Having a Coffee with One of Mexico's Great Novelists

By Sandra Cisneros | November 1, 2018

The Zombies of Karl Marx: Horror in Capitalism's Wake

The Zombies of Karl Marx: Horror in Capitalism's Wake

Brains, one might say, “to each according to his need.”

By Tyler Malone | October 31, 2018

How Much Did James Joyce Base

How Much Did James Joyce Base "The Dead" on His Own Family?

Colm Tóibín on the Greatest Short Story Ever Written

By Colm Tóibín | October 30, 2018

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Literary Hoax is the Most Underappreciated Genre

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The Radical Moralist: On Lionel Trilling's Literary Criticism

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In Gratitude for the Fierce Women of the World

In Gratitude for the Fierce Women of the World

Laird Hunt on the Women at the Center of His Novels

By Laird Hunt | October 29, 2018

The Year I Stopped Reading White People

The Year I Stopped Reading White People

Jerome Blanco on the Power of Writing What You Know

By Jerome Blanco | October 24, 2018

The Psychiatrist Who Tried To Save Sylvia Plath

The Psychiatrist Who Tried To Save Sylvia Plath

Paul Alexander on the Real "Doctor Nolan"

By Paul Alexander | October 23, 2018

The Vulnerable Private Writings of Ernest Hemingway

The Vulnerable Private Writings of Ernest Hemingway

Sandra Spanier Considers the Archive of an Icon

By Sandra Spanier | October 23, 2018

Amy Bloom on the Legacy of Thom Jones

Amy Bloom on the Legacy of Thom Jones

In Praise of Razor-Edged, Moving Fiction

By Amy Bloom | October 18, 2018

Why America’s Best Political Novelist Is Required Reading in 2018

Why America’s Best Political Novelist Is Required Reading in 2018

On the Prescience of Ward Just

By Susan Zakin | October 17, 2018

Life Got You Down? Time to Read <em>The Master and Margarita</em>

Life Got You Down? Time to Read The Master and Margarita

Or, How to Be Happy With Russian Literature

By Viv Groskop | October 16, 2018

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