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What Really Happened to the Girls at Hanging Rock?

What Really Happened to the Girls at Hanging Rock?

Maile Meloy on a 50-Year Literary Mystery

By Maile Meloy | November 27, 2017

Justice for Maggie: On George Eliot's Most Underrated Heroine

Justice for Maggie: On George Eliot's Most Underrated Heroine

Maggie Tulliver Deserves Our Praise Just as Much as Dorothea Brooke

By Rachel Vorona Cote | November 22, 2017

Long Tables, Open Bottles, and Smoke: Hanging Out with Derek Walcott

Long Tables, Open Bottles, and Smoke: Hanging Out with Derek Walcott

Sven Birkerts on Literary Life in 1980s Boston, with a Trio of Great Poets

By Sven Birkerts | November 22, 2017

<em>Call Me By Your Name</em> is an Object Lesson in Adapting Interiority

Call Me By Your Name is an Object Lesson in Adapting Interiority

You must see this movie immediately

By Emily Temple | November 20, 2017

We Still Need the Morality Lessons of Philip Pullman

We Still Need the Morality Lessons of Philip Pullman

A Book for Young Readers Can Help Adults Learn How to Live

By Eric Thurm | November 20, 2017

Charles Bukowski Wrote So Fast His Publisher Couldn’t Keep Up

Charles Bukowski Wrote So Fast His Publisher Couldn’t Keep Up

On Trying to Get a Poet to Make Copies of His Poems

By Abel Debritto | November 17, 2017

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Reclaiming a Beloved Writer from the Brink of Disappearance

By Beth Kephart | November 16, 2017

What George Orwell Wrote About the Dangers of Nationalism

By Kristian Williams | November 16, 2017

You Can Never Go Back: On Loving Children's Books as an Adult

By Anya Jaremko-Greenwold | November 14, 2017

Latin America’s Answer to Karl Ove Knausgaard

Latin America’s Answer to Karl Ove Knausgaard

On Ricardo Piglia and His Alter Ego, Emilio Renzi

By Ilan Stavans | November 14, 2017

What We Can Learn From Multiple Translations of the Same Poem

What We Can Learn From Multiple Translations of the Same Poem

And How It Brings Us Closer to the Experience of Reading the Original

By Martha Collins | November 13, 2017

Literature Without Writing: A Survey of Texts That Aren't Texts

Literature Without Writing: A Survey of Texts That Aren't Texts

Ross Simonini on Speech, Language, and the Foundations of Storytelling

By Ross Simonini | November 13, 2017

When an Umbrella is More Than Just an Umbrella

When an Umbrella is More Than Just an Umbrella

The Potent Symbolism of Brollies, from Mary Poppins to Harry Potter

By Marion Rankine | November 10, 2017

From Midcentury Confessional Poetry to Reality TV

From Midcentury Confessional Poetry to Reality TV

How Did "Confession" Become a Dirty Word?

By Christopher Grobe | November 9, 2017

Read Anne Sexton's Response to Her Worst-Ever Review

Read Anne Sexton's Response to Her Worst-Ever Review

Esquire is my enemy as you know."">"Dickey at Esquire is my enemy as you know."

By Emily Temple | November 9, 2017

All the Letters I'll Never Send

All the Letters I'll Never Send

What Can be Learned From an Archive of Longing?

By Clare Sestanovich | November 9, 2017

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