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The Black Women Who Wrote America's Earliest Autofiction

The Black Women Who Wrote America's Earliest Autofiction

On Following a Radical Lineage Back to the Slave Narrative

By Maryam Kazeem | February 25, 2019

<em>If Beale Street Could Talk</em>: How Does Barry Jenkins Measure Up to James Baldwin?

If Beale Street Could Talk: How Does Barry Jenkins Measure Up to James Baldwin?

Ahead of the Oscars Ben Rybeck Previews the Best Adapted Screenplay Nominees

By Ben Rybeck | February 22, 2019

How Louisa May Alcott Landed on the Front Lines of the Civil War

How Louisa May Alcott Landed on the Front Lines of the Civil War

"The door of opportunity opened just a crack."

By Samantha Seiple | February 22, 2019

On David Foster Wallace's Obsession With Failure

On David Foster Wallace's Obsession With Failure

What Happens When Failure is the End Point?

By Ryan Lackey | February 21, 2019

Eula Biss:

Eula Biss: "A book I can’t defend, a book I can’t renounce."

Reflections on a Book and a Decade of Whiteness

By Eula Biss | February 20, 2019

On the Iconic First Line of <em>One Hundred Years of Solitude</em>

On the Iconic First Line of One Hundred Years of Solitude

Time Passes Differently in the Tropics

By Claire Adam | February 19, 2019

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A Love Letter to Lovers of Outlander

By Amanda Feinman | February 14, 2019

High Lonesome: A Dispatch from the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering

By Michael Ursell | February 13, 2019

On Kate Bush's Radical Interpretation of Wuthering Heights

By Brendan Mathews | February 13, 2019

The Death of a Symbol: How Western Writers Exploit the Tiger

The Death of a Symbol: How Western Writers Exploit the Tiger

A Brief History of Gross Fascination

By Aditi Natasha Kini | February 11, 2019

Sense <em>or</em> Sensibility... What if Jane Austen Had to Choose?

Sense or Sensibility... What if Jane Austen Had to Choose?

Devoney Looser Considers the Mind vs. the Heart

By Devoney Looser | February 11, 2019

Marriage Isn't the Only Plot for Love

Marriage Isn't the Only Plot for Love

Reading Briallen Hopper and Rethinking Love

By Kristen Martin | February 11, 2019

What Barry Jenkins Missed in His Adaptation of <em>If Beale Street Could Talk</em>

What Barry Jenkins Missed in His Adaptation of If Beale Street Could Talk

Gabrielle Bellot Thinks James Baldwin Deserves Better

By Gabrielle Bellot | February 8, 2019

The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Faulkner's <em>The Sound and the Fury</em>

The 50 Best One-Star Amazon Reviews of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury

Harry Potter, you know?"">"This isn't Harry Potter, you know?"

By Emily Temple | February 8, 2019

On the Anxiety and Vanity of Marcel Proust, Debut Novelist

On the Anxiety and Vanity of Marcel Proust, Debut Novelist

World Wars Aren't Necessarily Bad for Groundbreaking Novel Cycles

By William C. Carter | February 7, 2019

In Praise of the Difficult: On Marianne Moore, Defiant Poet of Complexity

In Praise of the Difficult: On Marianne Moore, Defiant Poet of Complexity

Gabrielle Bellot: "I’m accustomed to difficulty."

By Gabrielle Bellot | February 5, 2019

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