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Our Imaginations Need to Dwell <em>Where the Wild Things Are</em>

Our Imaginations Need to Dwell Where the Wild Things Are

How Children's Literature Leads Us to the Uncanny

By Liam Heneghan | April 30, 2018

Van Morrison, Unlikeliest of Literary Muses

Van Morrison, Unlikeliest of Literary Muses

On the Outsize Influence of Astral Weeks

By Tobias Carroll | April 26, 2018

Reading Rilke in Paris's Jardin des Plantes

Reading Rilke in Paris's Jardin des Plantes

Henri Cole on Loneliness, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, and Brokeback Mountain

By Henri Cole | April 26, 2018

On the Ways We Read (and Are Written To)

On the Ways We Read (and Are Written To)

Damon Young on the Rarity and Fragility of Words on a Page

By Damon Young | April 26, 2018

Margaret Atwood on How She Came to Write <em>The Handmaid's Tale</em>

Margaret Atwood on How She Came to Write The Handmaid's Tale

The Origin Story of an Iconic Novel

By Margaret Atwood | April 25, 2018

When Fiction Pulls Back the Curtain on American Conservatism

When Fiction Pulls Back the Curtain on American Conservatism

Two Novels That Interrogate the Principle of the Few Over the Many

By Colette Shade | April 24, 2018

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Jane Austen and the Timeless Tradition of Mansplaining

By Kelly Marie Coyne | April 23, 2018

The Meanest Things Vladimir Nabokov Said About Other Writers

By Emily Temple | April 20, 2018

It's Never Too Soon for Art (or Politics) About Trauma

By Tom McAllister | April 20, 2018

<em>Silent Spring</em> is More than a Scientific Landmark: It's Literature

Silent Spring is More than a Scientific Landmark: It's Literature

On the Underrated Poetry of Rachel Carson's Masterpiece

By Rebecca Renner | April 20, 2018

The Bottomless Generosity of the Writer's Memoir

The Bottomless Generosity of the Writer's Memoir

On Alexander Chee, Leslie Jamison, and Writing About Writing

By Larissa Pham | April 18, 2018

What the Critics Are Saying About the New James Comey Book

What the Critics Are Saying About the New James Comey Book

These Are the Toxic Consequences of Lying

By Literary Hub | April 17, 2018

Michelle Dean: The Problem With

Michelle Dean: The Problem With "Speaking for Women"

On Sisterhood and the Abstractions of Contemporary Feminism

By Michelle Dean | April 13, 2018

The Complicated Comforts of Marilynne Robinson

The Complicated Comforts of Marilynne Robinson

Could One Writer Help Me Reckon with Personal and Political Upheaval?

By Rachel Vorona Cote | April 13, 2018

Restoring Power to the Women of Ancient Myth

Restoring Power to the Women of Ancient Myth

Madeline Miller on Being a Female Classicist

By Madeline Miller | April 11, 2018

Maybe Poets Are, in Fact, Aliens

Maybe Poets Are, in Fact, Aliens

On Craig Raine and the Martian School of Poetry

By Thomas C. Foster | April 11, 2018

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