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When Marguerite Duras Got Kicked Out of the Communist Party

When Marguerite Duras Got Kicked Out of the Communist Party

Perhaps They Accuse Me of Being a Whore Because They Can Find No Other Insult

By Emily Temple | April 4, 2018

The Year in Trump Novel Pitches: An Agent's Lament

The Year in Trump Novel Pitches: An Agent's Lament

The Truly Resonant Novels of the Trump Era Won't Be About Trump

By Erik Hane | March 30, 2018

On Moderata Fonte's Feminist Reimagining of 16th-Century Venice

On Moderata Fonte's Feminist Reimagining of 16th-Century Venice

Female Friendships and Single Women in The Merits of Women

By Virginia Cox | March 27, 2018

Mukoma Wa Ngugi: What <em>Decolonizing the Mind</em> Means Today

Mukoma Wa Ngugi: What Decolonizing the Mind Means Today

"The Work of Linguistic Decolonization Cannot Be Done By Writers Alone"

By Mukoma Wa Ngugi | March 23, 2018

Lost in Berlin, and in the Wordless Writing of Mirtha Dermisache

Lost in Berlin, and in the Wordless Writing of Mirtha Dermisache

J. Mae Barizo on the Space Between the Known and Unknown

By J. Mae Barizo | March 23, 2018

Stop Looking for One War Story to Make Sense of All Wars

Stop Looking for One War Story to Make Sense of All Wars

Matt Young on the Romanticized Image of the Warrior Poet

By Matt Young | March 22, 2018

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Why Do We Turn to Stories in the Midst of a Disaster?

By Madeleine Wattenbarger | March 21, 2018

Four Theories Toward the Timeless Brilliance of Infinite Jest

By Tom Bissell | March 21, 2018

Imagining Iraq: On the Fifteenth Anniversary of the Iraq War

By Philip Metres | March 20, 2018

On Finding a Hero in Alison Bechdel

On Finding a Hero in Alison Bechdel

Genevieve Hudson's Search for a Community on the Page

By Genevieve Hudson | March 20, 2018

Does <em>The Virgin Suicides</em> Hold Up 25 Years Later?

Does The Virgin Suicides Hold Up 25 Years Later?

Rereading Jeffrey Eugenides's Debut Novel in 2018

By Emily Temple | March 19, 2018

Is It Worth 1,000 Words? Mark Sarvas on Writing Art in Fiction

Is It Worth 1,000 Words? Mark Sarvas on Writing Art in Fiction

A Brief Survey of Paintings in Literature

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Why Every Progressive Should Read <em>The Good Soldier Švejk</em>

Why Every Progressive Should Read The Good Soldier Švejk

Paul Goldberg on How to Stay Sane in a World Besieged by Idiocy

By Paul Goldberg | March 9, 2018

Curtis White: There's No Such Thing as Postmodernism

Curtis White: There's No Such Thing as Postmodernism

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The Tragedies of Aeschylus Are Truly Timeless

The Tragedies of Aeschylus Are Truly Timeless

Ismail Kadare on the Greatest of the Greeks

By Ismail Kadare | February 26, 2018

Hannah Arendt on the Time She Met W.H. Auden

Hannah Arendt on the Time She Met W.H. Auden

Happy Birthday to the poet who thought “poetry makes nothing happen”

By Hannah Arendt | February 21, 2018

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