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What Do We Mean When We Say Women's Fiction?

What Do We Mean When We Say Women's Fiction?

Liz Kay on Broadening the Scope of Stories By and For Women

By Liz Kay | September 19, 2016

Finding the Unsayable in Translation

Finding the Unsayable in Translation

On Javier Marías, Roberto Bolaño, and a Double Dose of Defamiliarization

By Michael Helm | September 16, 2016

Alan Moore Goes (Very Very) Big with <em>Jerusalem</em>

Alan Moore Goes (Very Very) Big with Jerusalem

On the Ongoing Ascendancy of the Very Long Novel

By Joshua Zajdman | September 14, 2016

Affinity Konar in Poland, Revisiting the Hardest Scenes from Her Novel

Affinity Konar in Poland, Revisiting the Hardest Scenes from Her Novel

From Krakow to Auschwitz, and Letting Go of Characters

By Affinity Konar | September 14, 2016

One of the Greatest English Prose Writers of All Time?

One of the Greatest English Prose Writers of All Time?

Ruth Scurr's Unconventional Biography Reveals the Genius of John Aubrey

By Charles Arrowsmith | September 14, 2016

Real-Life British Spies <em>Did Not</em> Like John Le Carré

Real-Life British Spies Did Not Like John Le Carré

The Master Thriller Writer Recalls Lunch with Alec Guinness and a Grumpy Old Spy

By John le Carré | September 12, 2016

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200 Years After the Embargo, Helen Garner Reviews Pride and Prejudice

By Helen Garner | September 9, 2016

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Interview With a Gatekeeper: Nan Talese

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From Random House's First Female Literary Editor to Her Own Imprint

By Kerri Arsenault | September 7, 2016

How I Spent My Summer Vacation: With Ferrante and Knausgaard

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On the Impossible Allure of First Person Narcissists

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Spoiler Alerts: Any Story Worth Telling Doesn't Need Them

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On Misguided Spoiler Panic and Why We Should All Calm Down

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Mario Vargas Llosa: How Global Entertainment Killed Culture

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From Eliot to Steiner, Debord to Martel, Some Ideas on the Death of Meaning

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Who Gets to Decide What Counts as “English”?

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On Decolonizing Language

By Gabrielle Bellot | August 31, 2016

Seamus Heaney on William Wordsworth's One Big Truth

Seamus Heaney on William Wordsworth's One Big Truth

An Indispensable Figure in the Evolution of Modern Writing

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How a Self-Published Writer of Gay Erotica Beat Sci-Fi's Sad Puppies at their Own Game

How a Self-Published Writer of Gay Erotica Beat Sci-Fi's Sad Puppies at their Own Game

And What it Taught Me About Pushing through Writer's Block

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