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Orna Guralnik on Listening for the Unconscious

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Reckoning with the Long Literary Tradition of Age-Gap Relationships

Reckoning with the Long Literary Tradition of Age-Gap Relationships

Carly Mattox on Half His Age, A Girl’s Story, and Her Own Experience

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10 Great New Children’s Books Out in August 2026

10 Great New Children’s Books Out in August 2026

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Sea Monster Villages and Soul Traders: August’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

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This Week in Literary History: William Shakespeare’s <em>Macbeth</em> is Performed for the First Time (Probably)

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Toil and Trouble

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“Dog Days lends itself to exactly this kind of paranoid reading, not only describing but enacting the magical thinking of trauma survivors.”

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Lupe Mendez on Texas Politics and the Killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo

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In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and Jennifer Maritza McCauley on Fiction/Non/Fiction

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The Tragedy of Loving Sylvia Plath

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Sarai Walker on Obsession, Ownership, and Plath Worship

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Gwendoline Riley on Mark Van Doren's <em>Shakespeare</em>

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What I Learned from a Close Read of All of Colson Whitehead’s Work

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