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The 30 Best Bad Amazon Reviews for Flannery O'Connor's Short Stories

The 30 Best Bad Amazon Reviews for Flannery O'Connor's Short Stories

"She is a sadist. I bet she was sorry ultimately!"

By Emily Temple | May 21, 2020

The Case of Oscar Wilde's Mistaken Identity in Naples

The Case of Oscar Wilde's Mistaken Identity in Naples

Renato Miracco on a Scandalized Italian Public

By Renato Miracco | May 21, 2020

Reading the Eccentric Italian Writer Who Tried to Cover Up His Fascism

Reading the Eccentric Italian Writer Who Tried to Cover Up His Fascism

Edmund White on Curzio Malaparte's Oblong Visions of the World

By Edmund White | May 20, 2020

Pre-Apocalyptic Fiction Shows Us What to Appreciate Before It's Gone

Pre-Apocalyptic Fiction Shows Us What to Appreciate Before It's Gone

Nancy Wayson Dinan on Literature of the Before and After

By Nancy Wayson Dinan | May 20, 2020

How I Hustled Hundreds of Dollars of Free Tacos for the Literary World

How I Hustled Hundreds of Dollars of Free Tacos for the Literary World

The Founder of Taco Bell Quarterly Tells All

By MM Carrigan | May 19, 2020

Defiant and Unsinkable: <br>The Ethos of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Defiant and Unsinkable:
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Olivia Gatwood on the Poet's Strength and Progressivism

By Olivia Gatwood | May 19, 2020

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Alex George on the Satisfying Spectacle of Torching It All

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On the Dreams of Latinx Women in a Pandemic Year

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Felicia Zamora Finds a Little Magic in a Dark Time

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What to Make of Isaac Asimov, Sci-Fi Giant and Dirty Old Man?

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Despite Calling Himself a Feminist the Author of the Foundation Stories Was a Serial Harasser

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Maria Reva on Books By Samanta Schweblin, Selja Ahava, and More

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Amanda Craig on Celebrating the Domestic

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Lydia Millet Wonders Why We're Not Panicking More

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How Cherokee Citizens Are Writing Themselves<br> Into the Future

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