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Hemingway vs. Ken Russell: Or Why You Should Compare Apples to Oranges

Hemingway vs. Ken Russell: Or Why You Should Compare Apples to Oranges

Noah Berlatsky on the Critical Value of Broad Comparisons

By Noah Berlatsky | December 7, 2016

Was Edmund Wilson Just Jealous of <em>Lolita</em>?

Was Edmund Wilson Just Jealous of Lolita?

How a Great American Literary Critic Got it Wrong About a Classic

By Alex Beam | December 6, 2016

César Aira Makes the Impossible Possible

César Aira Makes the Impossible Possible

Mark Haber on the Newly Translated Ema the Captive

By Mark Haber | December 6, 2016

Literature for This Long, Dark Night of America's Soul

Literature for This Long, Dark Night of America's Soul

Scott Esposito Looks to Art for Salvation

By Veronica Esposito | December 5, 2016

Why We Need Revolutionary Poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz More Than Ever

Why We Need Revolutionary Poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz More Than Ever

Rajat Singh on the Tangible Power of Political Poetry

By Rajat Singh | December 5, 2016

Where is All the Sibling Literature for Adults?

Where is All the Sibling Literature for Adults?

Katharine Noel on the Centrality of Sibling Relationships to YA

By Katharine Noel | December 2, 2016

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On the Dangerous AIDS Myth of 'Patient Zero,' and the Book That Started It All

By Harron Walker | December 1, 2016

Ntozake Shange: On a Brilliant Balance of Anger and Poetry

By Michael Denneny | December 1, 2016

The Gifts of Reading Are Many

By Robert Macfarlane | November 30, 2016

A Feminist Thoreau

A Feminist Thoreau

On the Adirondack Woodswoman Anne LaBastille

By Rafia Zakaria | November 30, 2016

Storytelling vs. Oversharing in the Age of Snapchat

Storytelling vs. Oversharing in the Age of Snapchat

On the work of Rachel Cusk, Claire-Louise Bennett, and Eimear McBride

By Clare Sestanovich | November 29, 2016

How Pacifism Can Lead to Violence and Conflict

How Pacifism Can Lead to Violence and Conflict

Miriam Toews on the Conflicts that Arise from Mennonites' Non-Conflict

By Miriam Toews | November 28, 2016

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neruda's Lost Poems

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neruda's Lost Poems

On Translating His Recent Collection of Never-Before-Seen Poems

By Forrest Gander | November 23, 2016

What Does

What Does "Longform" Journalism Really Mean?

On Love and Ruin, Terminology, and the Anxiety of Limits

By Brendan Fitzgerald | November 21, 2016

The Bolaño Effect: Latin American Literature in Translation

The Bolaño Effect: Latin American Literature in Translation

On the Great and Steady Surge in Translated Titles

By Nathan Scott McNamara | November 18, 2016

Thoreau Was Actually Funny as Hell

Thoreau Was Actually Funny as Hell

The Walden Author Isn't a Misanthrope—Just Misunderstood

By M. Allen Cunningham | November 17, 2016

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