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Why Are We So Afraid of Female Desire?

Why Are We So Afraid of Female Desire?

On Sex and Moral Panic, from the Victorians to the Hays Code

By Carol Dyhouse | June 1, 2017

Chris Kraus on Why You Should Read Eileen Myles's First Novel

Chris Kraus on Why You Should Read Eileen Myles's First Novel

Cool for You Reissued Just In Time

By Chris Kraus | May 31, 2017

I Found My Family in <em>Jesus' Son</em>

I Found My Family in Jesus' Son

James Boice on One of the Most Influential Books of the Latest 50 Years

By James Boice | May 31, 2017

On the Autofiction of Conrad Aiken, Unsung American Modernist

On the Autofiction of Conrad Aiken, Unsung American Modernist

On Freud, Language, and the Topography of Consciousness

By Conor Higgins | May 25, 2017

Virginia Woolf: There Are Way Too Many Personal Essays Out There

Virginia Woolf: There Are Way Too Many Personal Essays Out There

Just Because You Can Write it, Doesn’t Mean You Have to Publish It

By Lorraine Berry | May 24, 2017

In a 12th-Century Iranian Poem, a Vision of Solidarity We Need Today

In a 12th-Century Iranian Poem, a Vision of Solidarity We Need Today

What We Can Learn from The Conference of the Birds

By Theodore McCombs | May 24, 2017

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We Need the Lives of Others Now More Than Ever

By Veronica Esposito | May 23, 2017

The Wisdom of Sendak: Children Are Wild, Honest, Immoral Beings

By Buzz Poole | May 22, 2017

Americans in Search of Utopia

By Betsy Hartmann | May 22, 2017

Why We <em>Do</em> Need Another Adaptation of <em>Little Women</em>

Why We Do Need Another Adaptation of Little Women

At Heart, Retelling is an Act of Love

By Anne Boyd Rioux | May 19, 2017

Queering the

Queering the "I": On First-Person LGBTQ Narratives

Garth Greenwell, Martin Pousson, and Others Talk Vulnerability and Shame

By Ilana Masad | May 19, 2017

Reading Joan Didion in the Midst of Depression

Reading Joan Didion in the Midst of Depression

Philipa Snow Reads Play It As It Lays and Finds the Right Kind of Feeling

By Philippa Snow | May 18, 2017

In Praise of Juan Rulfo: Carmen Boullosa, Yuri Herrera, and More...

In Praise of Juan Rulfo: Carmen Boullosa, Yuri Herrera, and More...

On the Centenary of a Great Mexican Writer

By Literary Hub | May 17, 2017

The Price Tag of Being a Woman

The Price Tag of Being a Woman

How Rachel Cusk, Joanna Walsh & Others Depict the Demands of Femininity

By Melynda Fuller | May 17, 2017

In <em>Kintu</em>, a Look at What it Means to be Ugandan Now

In Kintu, a Look at What it Means to be Ugandan Now

How Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi's novel Offers an Important Corrective

By Aaron Bady | May 15, 2017

The Political Murakami on Life in a Dark Timeline

The Political Murakami on Life in a Dark Timeline

Gabrielle Bellot on the Unreality of the Real World, Post-9/11

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 10, 2017

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