How Bad Writing Destroyed the World

How Bad Writing Destroyed the World

On the Origin of Ayn Rand's Thinking, and a Manchurian Economist Named Greenspan

By Adam Weiner | October 6, 2016

Why Every American Should Read <em>The Reluctant Fundamentalist</em>

Why Every American Should Read The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Gabrielle Bellot on Radical Difference in the Age of Trump

By Gabrielle Bellot | October 5, 2016

Is Joyce Carol Oates Trolling Us?

Is Joyce Carol Oates Trolling Us?

On Gaffes, Cats, and My Obsession with JCO's Twitter Feed

By Eric Thurm | October 5, 2016

Leave Elena Ferrante Alone

Leave Elena Ferrante Alone

David L. Ulin on the Baffling Impulse to Unmask a Beloved Writer

By David L. Ulin | October 3, 2016

The Haunting of Shirley Jackson

The Haunting of Shirley Jackson

Laura Miller on Imaginative Young Women in Big, Isolated Houses...

By Laura Miller | September 28, 2016

On the Heterodox Jewishness of Clarice Lispector

On the Heterodox Jewishness of Clarice Lispector

A Writer of the Diaspora, In Search of God

By Nathan Goldman | September 27, 2016

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The Secret to Faking Your Own Death

By Elizabeth Greenwood | September 26, 2016

How Peyton Place Comforted Me as a Closeted Teenager

By Nathan Smith | September 26, 2016

Edith Wharton's Indictment of Gilded Age Inequality: Still Relevant

By Colette Shade | September 22, 2016

What About a Woman's Right to Idleness?

What About a Woman's Right to Idleness?

On the Work of Writing and Leopoldine Core's When Watched

By Emily Harnett | September 21, 2016

Fear and Loathing in New England: Lev Grossman Looks Back at His First Novel

Fear and Loathing in New England: Lev Grossman Looks Back at His First Novel

"I wasn’t really a slacker; I was more just a loser."

By Lev Grossman | September 20, 2016

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Is "Show Don't Tell" a Universal Truth or a Colonial Relic?

Namrata Poddar on the Western Preference for Visual Over Oral Storytelling

By Namrata Poddar | September 20, 2016

Our Doppelgängers, Ourselves

Our Doppelgängers, Ourselves

Why the Uncanny Valley Continues to Fascinate Us

By Alan Glynn | September 19, 2016

What Do We Mean When We Say Women's Fiction?

What Do We Mean When We Say Women's Fiction?

Liz Kay on Broadening the Scope of Stories By and For Women

By Liz Kay | September 19, 2016

Finding the Unsayable in Translation

Finding the Unsayable in Translation

On Javier Marías, Roberto Bolaño, and a Double Dose of Defamiliarization

By Michael Helm | September 16, 2016

Alan Moore Goes (Very Very) Big with <em>Jerusalem</em>

Alan Moore Goes (Very Very) Big with Jerusalem

On the Ongoing Ascendancy of the Very Long Novel

By Joshua Zajdman | September 14, 2016

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