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The Radical Potential of Queer Road Novels

The Radical Potential of Queer Road Novels

Looking Beyond the Bro-Canon

By Allison Gallagher | July 25, 2017

How a Book About Grover Revealed to Me the Wide World of Literature

How a Book About Grover Revealed to Me the Wide World of Literature

From Joyce to Kafka to The Monster at the End of the Book

By David Burr Gerrard | July 18, 2017

Jane Austen's Most Widely Mocked Character is Also Her Most Subversive

Jane Austen's Most Widely Mocked Character is Also Her Most Subversive

In Defense of Pride and Prejudice's Mrs. Bennet

By Rachel Dunphy | July 18, 2017

A Woman Alone in London: On the Literature of Solitude

A Woman Alone in London: On the Literature of Solitude

"A Solitary Life is No Less Liberated Than One That is Lived More Publicly"

By Lucy Scholes | July 17, 2017

Bill McKibben: Thoreau Suggests You Put Down Your Smartphone

Bill McKibben: Thoreau Suggests You Put Down Your Smartphone

On the Foresight and Ongoing Relevance of a Great American Thinker

By Bill McKibben | July 12, 2017

Who Cares What Straight People Think?

Who Cares What Straight People Think?

Brandon Taylor on the Uncertain State of Queer Narratives

By Brandon Taylor | July 11, 2017

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Who Will Tell the Tales of American Fascism?

By Veronica Esposito | July 11, 2017

Why Are We So Unwilling to Take Sylvia Plath at Her Word?

By Emily Van Duyne | July 11, 2017

Dystopia is Realism: The Future Is Here if You Look Closely

By Christopher Brown | July 10, 2017

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Tessa Hadley on Alice Munro Reading "Differently"

"A Little More Abrasive, Buoyant... Defiant?"

By Tessa Hadley | July 10, 2017

Writing in the Shadow of a Masterpiece: On Homage

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Margot Livesy Celebrates the Joy and Anxiety of Literary Borrowing

By Margot Livesy | July 5, 2017

Systemic Cruelty, Mass Sadism, and Reading

Systemic Cruelty, Mass Sadism, and Reading "The Lottery" in 2017

Shirley Jackson's Classic Fable is Always Relevant to America

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Was <em>Jane Eyre</em> Written as a Secret Love Letter?

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An Autobiography Transformed Into a Novel

By John Pfordresher | June 26, 2017

On a Wonderful, Beautiful, Almost Failed Sentence By Virginia Woolf

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A Close Reading of the Opening Lines to an Iconic Essay, 'On Being Ill'

By Brian Dillon | June 21, 2017

To Catch the Conscience of the President: On the Power of Theater

To Catch the Conscience of the President: On the Power of Theater

How We Retell our Stories, From Shakespeare to Beckett to Anne Washburn

By Veronica Esposito | June 20, 2017

Tolerance and Islamophobia in 16th-Century Spain, Not So Different from Now

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Matthew Carr Moves from Nonfiction to Fiction in Exploring Muslim Spain

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