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

Empathy Exams: On Fictionalizing Extremists

Empathy Exams: On Fictionalizing Extremists

One Writer’s Activism is Another Writer’s Terrorism

By Tobias Carroll | February 1, 2019

On Danticat, Camus, and the Art of Exile

On Danticat, Camus, and the Art of Exile

Gabrielle Bellot Reminds Us That Immigrant Art is American Art

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 30, 2019

When Even the Greatest of Writers Grapples with Self-Doubt

When Even the Greatest of Writers Grapples with Self-Doubt

Gabrielle Bellot on W.B. Yeats and the Fine Line Between Arrogance and Humility

By Gabrielle Bellot | January 28, 2019

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Deconstructing Old Stories to Tell Them in New Ways

By Daisy Johnson | January 25, 2019

How Virginia Woolf Taught Me to Mourn

By Katharine Smyth | January 25, 2019

Lessons From a Newly-Discovered Sylvia Plath Story

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

How Domesticity is at the Heart of the Novel

How Domesticity is at the Heart of the Novel

On What It Is to Write About Everyday Life

By Tessa Hadley | January 16, 2019

This Science Fiction Novelist Created a Feminist Language from Scratch

This Science Fiction Novelist Created a Feminist Language from Scratch

There's Even a Word For Emotional Labor!

By Rebecca Romney | January 15, 2019

A Brief History of Children's Books: Nasty, Brutish, and Short

A Brief History of Children's Books: Nasty, Brutish, and Short

Jennifer Traig on the Bizarre Violence of Early Kid Lit

By Jennifer Traig | January 14, 2019

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