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Why Look at Art When You Could Watch TV?

Why Look at Art When You Could Watch TV?

On John Berger's Revolutionary Art Criticism

By Joshua Sperling | November 26, 2018

Revisiting the Genius of <em>Middlemarch</em>

Revisiting the Genius of Middlemarch

On the Occasion of George Eliot's 199th Birthday Eve

By John Mullan | November 21, 2018

Stop Dismissing Inclusive Children's Books as 'Too Political'

Stop Dismissing Inclusive Children's Books as 'Too Political'

Librarian Erinn Salge on the Importance of Seeing Yourself on the Page

By Erinn Salge | November 21, 2018

Before the Neapolitan Quartet,  There Was <em>Sula</em>

Before the Neapolitan Quartet, There Was Sula

Why Was Only One of These An International Phenomenon?

By Gwen Aviles | November 19, 2018

The Forgotten Fairy Tale Genius of Édouard Laboulaye

The Forgotten Fairy Tale Genius of Édouard Laboulaye

Political Parables of 19th-Century Democracy

By Jack Zipes and Édouard Laboulaye | November 19, 2018

How Saul Bellow Reckoned with Money and Fame

How Saul Bellow Reckoned with Money and Fame

"Guys, I'm Rich. What Can I Get For You?"

By Zachary Leader | November 15, 2018

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On One of Hogarth Press' Earliest Printings

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What Folk Music Misses About Actual Folks

What Folk Music Misses About Actual Folks

Brian Laidlaw on the Pastoral Fantasy in Music and Poetry

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The Moment Sylvia Plath Found Her Genius

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How Much Editing Was Done to Emily Dickinson's Poems After She Died?

How Much Editing Was Done to Emily Dickinson's Poems After She Died?

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The Queering of Boundaries in Cristina Rivera Garza's Fiction

The Queering of Boundaries in Cristina Rivera Garza's Fiction

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The Polish Army Officer Who Conjured Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

The Polish Army Officer Who Conjured Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

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