An Oddly Poetic Account of Colorblindness from the Turn of the Last Century

An Oddly Poetic Account of Colorblindness from the Turn of the Last Century

the music of light."">"We may aptly term color the music of light."

By Emily Noyes Vanderpoel | January 10, 2019

Why Does Women's Writing About Relationships Need to be “Relatable”?

Why Does Women's Writing About Relationships Need to be “Relatable”?

Hint: It's a Word Men Use to Describe Their Writing in Order to Diminish It

By Blythe Roberson | January 10, 2019

The Unexpected Literary Pleasure of Marijuana Reviews

The Unexpected Literary Pleasure of Marijuana Reviews

Walk With Us Through a Transcendent Corner of the Internet

By Taylor Lannamann | January 9, 2019

Marcel Proust Was Almost Impossible to Edit

Marcel Proust Was Almost Impossible to Edit

Carol Clark on the Challenges of Editing and Translating The Prisoner

By Carol Clark | January 8, 2019

On the Freaky Foods of Fictional Worlds

On the Freaky Foods of Fictional Worlds

From Abundance to Scarcity, What Eating in Sci-Fi Says About the Real World

By Lizzy Saxe | January 7, 2019

Toward an Expanded Canon of Black Literature

Toward an Expanded Canon of Black Literature

How Some Black Writers Live, and Some Die

By Mateo Askaripour | January 3, 2019

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On Dickens’ Demons and Weird Relationship with Christmas

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On Sylvia Plath and the Many Shades of Depression

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Gabrielle Bellot Considers How a Writer's Work is Measured Against Her Death

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Oliverio Girondo's Absurd Cosmopolitan World

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Rewriting Trauma: The Business of Storytelling in the Age of the Algorithm

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Screenwriter James Schamus on What Goes Into the TV You're Binge-Watching

By James Schamus | December 12, 2018

On James Baldwin's Dispatches from the Heart of the Civil Rights Movement

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The Making of an Iconic Essayist

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Poet of the Disappeared: On the Writing of Raúl Zurita

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"There is power and agency in staying in a dangerous place when one has the choice to leave."

By Norma Cole | December 7, 2018

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