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Advice from Montaigne: You Want to Be Wise? Don't Read Too Much.

Advice from Montaigne: You Want to Be Wise? Don't Read Too Much.

The Father of the Modern Essay Was Really Quite Unpretentious

By Antoine Compagnon | June 27, 2019

We All Really Need to Reread George Orwell's <em>1984</em>

We All Really Need to Reread George Orwell's 1984

Dorian Lynskey on How the Message of a Book Can Change Radically Over Time

By Dorian Lynskey | June 27, 2019

On <em>Myra Breckinridge</em> and the Life of Gore Vidal

On Myra Breckinridge and the Life of Gore Vidal

Camille Paglia Unpacks the Mores of a Different Era

By Camille Paglia | June 27, 2019

Alix Ohlin: How to Write—and Not—About the Struggle to Have a Child

Alix Ohlin: How to Write—and Not—About the Struggle to Have a Child

On Motherhood, Fertility, and Gendered Readings of Women's Books

By Alix Ohlin | June 26, 2019

How the Alphabet Helped Virginia Woolf Understand<br> Her Father

How the Alphabet Helped Virginia Woolf Understand
Her Father

On the Poetry of a Precocious Nine-Year-Old

By Jacquelyn Ardam | June 26, 2019

How Alison Bechdel Understands Her Life as Fiction

How Alison Bechdel Understands Her Life as Fiction

Gabrielle Bellot on the Groundbreaking Memoir Fun Home

By Gabrielle Bellot | June 26, 2019

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The Complex Queer Literary History of Fire Island

By Jack Parlett | June 25, 2019

The Poetic Pleasures and Pains We Can Only Express in Dutch

By Sadiqa de Meijer | June 25, 2019

Catherine Lacey on the Searching Spirit Behind Lore Segal's Long Career

By Catherine Lacey | June 25, 2019

The Many Ways We Create the 'Other'

The Many Ways We Create the 'Other'

Louise Aronson on the Contemporary Othering of the Elderly

By Louise Aronson | June 25, 2019

Annie Proulx on One of Her Favorite Short Stories

Annie Proulx on One of Her Favorite Short Stories

A Close Reading of William Gass's "The Pedersen Kid"

By Annie Proulx | June 24, 2019

On Toxic Corporate Culture in Contemporary Fiction

On Toxic Corporate Culture in Contemporary Fiction

Johanna Berkman Reads Novels by Elisabeth Cohen, Halle Butler, and Lydia Kiesling

By Johanna Berkman | June 24, 2019

The Grand Cultural Influence of Octavia Butler

The Grand Cultural Influence of Octavia Butler

Happy Birthday to a Legend of Literature

By Emily Temple | June 21, 2019

Viet Thanh Nguyen on What David Wong Louie Meant to Him at 20

Viet Thanh Nguyen on What David Wong Louie Meant to Him at 20

Reading Pangs of Love and Discovering Asian American Literary Voices

By Viet Thanh Nguyen | June 21, 2019

On the Tricky Business of Creating a National Anthology: Irish Edition

On the Tricky Business of Creating a National Anthology: Irish Edition

Lucy Caldwell Reflects on What We Mean By a National Literature

By Lucy Caldwell | June 21, 2019

The Comic Tragedy of a Narrator with No Sense of Self

The Comic Tragedy of a Narrator with No Sense of Self

Danielle Dutton Close-Reads Ann Quin's Berg

By Danielle Dutton | June 21, 2019

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