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Capturing Natural Coincidences, in Fiction and Life

Capturing Natural Coincidences, in Fiction and Life

Martha Cooley on the Vajont Disaster, Julio Cortazar, and the Strange Power of Serendipity

By Martha Cooley | October 21, 2019

Do Printed-Out Emails Count As Letters? (Yes)

Do Printed-Out Emails Count As Letters? (Yes)

Dheepa Maturi on the Value of Epistolary Correspondence,
in What Ever Form

By Dheepa R. Maturi | October 21, 2019

On the Sexist Reception of Willa Cather's World War I Novel

On the Sexist Reception of Willa Cather's World War I Novel

From Hemingway to Mencken, No One Thought a Woman Could Write About Combat

By Rebecca Onion | October 21, 2019

On J.M. Coetzee's <em>Age of Iron</em>: Perennially, Lamentably, Current

On J.M. Coetzee's Age of Iron: Perennially, Lamentably, Current

John Freeman Rereads a Contemporary Classic

By John Freeman | October 18, 2019

Orwell's Notes on <em>1984</em>: Mapping the Inspiration of a Modern Classic

Orwell's Notes on 1984: Mapping the Inspiration of a Modern Classic

objective truth."">"The nightmare feeling caused by the disappearance of
objective truth."

By D.J. Taylor | October 18, 2019

How Beth Brant Uplifted the Voices of Native American Queer Women

How Beth Brant Uplifted the Voices of Native American Queer Women

On Taking a More Inclusive Approach to Indigenous Writing

By Janice Gould | October 18, 2019

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The Hungarian Author Who Foresaw the Future of Nationalism

By Stephanie Newman | October 17, 2019

A Friendship in Letters:
Flannery O'Connor and Katherine Anne Porter

By Benjamin B. Alexander | October 16, 2019

Demystifying the Writer's Fear of Failure

By Sarah LaBrie | October 16, 2019

Harold Bloom on Cormac McCarthy, True Heir to Melville and Faulkner

Harold Bloom on Cormac McCarthy, True Heir to Melville and Faulkner

On Violence, the Sublime, and Blood Meridian's Place in the American Canon

By Harold Bloom | October 16, 2019

The Impossibility of Capturing Truth in a Biography

The Impossibility of Capturing Truth in a Biography

Iris Origo on Why We Try Anyway

By Iris Origo | October 15, 2019

Who Has the Right to Write About Hurricane Katrina?

Who Has the Right to Write About Hurricane Katrina?

Maggie Neil on The Yellow House and the Many Names of Loss

By Maggie Neil | October 11, 2019

Nobel Prize-Winner Olga Tokarczuk in Conversation with John Freeman

Nobel Prize-Winner Olga Tokarczuk in Conversation with John Freeman

The Newly Minted Laureate and Author of Flights

By John Freeman | October 10, 2019

Rumi Priestly Poet of Love <em>and</em> Master of the One Liner

Rumi Priestly Poet of Love and Master of the One Liner

Brad Gooch on One of the World's Great Poets

By Brad Gooch | October 10, 2019

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Giant of Kenyan Letters

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Giant of Kenyan Letters

Billy Kahora on a Global Literary Icon

By Billy Kahora | October 9, 2019

Philip Pullman on Children's Literature and the Critics Who Disdain It

Philip Pullman on Children's Literature and the Critics Who Disdain It

Don't Let Anyone Tell You What You Should or Should Not Be Reading

By Philip Pullman | October 8, 2019

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