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Joanna Scutts on How We Find—and Lose—Women Writers

Joanna Scutts on How We Find—and Lose—Women Writers

Exhumations and Revelations, from Zora Neale Hurston
to Bette Howland

By Joanna Scutts | May 13, 2019

16 Poet Biopics, Ranked

16 Poet Biopics, Ranked

"Dead gay poets? Erotic violence? Sounds like a DiCaprio project."

By Emily Temple | May 8, 2019

What Would It Mean to Live in <br>a World Without Stories?

What Would It Mean to Live in
a World Without Stories?

Alexis Wright on the Systemic Weaponization of Silence

By Alexis Wright | May 8, 2019

Rebecca Solnit on Setting <em>Cinderella</em> Free for Contemporary Readers

Rebecca Solnit on Setting Cinderella Free for Contemporary Readers

A Classic Fairytale Rebuilt as a Working Class Liberation Story

By Rebecca Solnit | May 7, 2019

On Elizabeth Bishop, Loss, and Coming Out After 20 Years in a Convent

On Elizabeth Bishop, Loss, and Coming Out After 20 Years in a Convent

Patricia Dwyer Revisits the Spaces She Has Lost

By Patricia M. Dwyer | May 7, 2019

Reading the Selfie-Filled Memoir of Halldór Laxness

Reading the Selfie-Filled Memoir of Halldór Laxness

What's Not to Love About Descriptions of Food and Strong Opinions About Poets?

By Gerður Kristný | May 7, 2019

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

What Is an Australian National Literature and Who Creates It?

By Nam Le | May 6, 2019

On the Modern American Obsession with French Revolution Narratives

By Tobias Carroll | May 3, 2019

Anjelica Huston on Finding Her Father in the Writing of Lillian Ross

By Anjelica Huston | May 3, 2019

<em>Finnegan's Wake</em> at 80: <br>In Defense of the Difficult

Finnegan's Wake at 80:
In Defense of the Difficult

On the Pleasure of Annotating One of Literature's
Most Challenging Works

By Susie Lopez | May 3, 2019

Dear Reader: Eileen Myles on Kathy Acker

Dear Reader: Eileen Myles on Kathy Acker

On the Novel Great Expectations

By Eileen Myles | May 2, 2019

Happy birthday, Joseph Heller! Here's a gift: a classic review of <em>Catch-22.</em>

Happy birthday, Joseph Heller! Here's a gift: a classic review of Catch-22.

By Katie Yee | May 1, 2019

On the Great Clarice Lispector

On the Great Clarice Lispector

Benjamin Moser Introduces The Besieged City

By Benjamin Moser | April 30, 2019

On the Literary Pitfalls of Writing About the Young and Rich

On the Literary Pitfalls of Writing About the Young and Rich

Michael Knight Didn't Set Out to Write a Prep School Novel

By Michael Knight | April 30, 2019

Sex and Sexability: On Writing Desire in the Regency Years

Sex and Sexability: On Writing Desire in the Regency Years

In Which Is Discussed Assorted 'Paragons of Debauchery'

By Robert Morrison | April 30, 2019

Why Was Shakespeare Wary of <br>Writing About Religion?

Why Was Shakespeare Wary of
Writing About Religion?

He Would've Made a Terrible Puritan...

By Jonathan Bate | April 30, 2019

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