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Even Dostoyevsky Hated Literary Readings

Even Dostoyevsky Hated Literary Readings

Why Can't We Sit Still and Listen for 20 Minutes?

By Daniel Torday | May 12, 2016

The Dimunition of Women Writers: An American Tradition

The Dimunition of Women Writers: An American Tradition

On Constance Fennimore Woolson, a Truly Great 19th-Century Novelist

By Anne Boyd Rioux | May 12, 2016

Why Fiction Needs More Women Scientists

Why Fiction Needs More Women Scientists

When A Plot is Handed to You on a Petri Dish, Write It

By Eileen Pollack | May 10, 2016

Anton Chekhov: A Post-Post-Modernist Way Ahead of His Time

Anton Chekhov: A Post-Post-Modernist Way Ahead of His Time

What it Means To Be Chekhovian: Lively, Innovative, Experimental

By Peter Constantine | May 9, 2016

No More Dead Mothers: Reading, Writing, and Grieving

No More Dead Mothers: Reading, Writing, and Grieving

After Three Novels, Hannah Gersen Gets Through the Loss of Her Mother

By Hannah Gersen | May 6, 2016

On Discovering Real Mothers on the Page

On Discovering Real Mothers on the Page

Pamela Erens, Rivka Glachen, Julia Fierro, and writing about motherhood

By Jordan Rosenfeld | May 6, 2016

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On Don DeLillo's Deep Italian-American Roots

On Don DeLillo's Deep Italian-American Roots

On the Rich Artful Paranoia of the Son of a Jesuit

By Nick Ripatrazone | May 3, 2016

Why Are There So Many Novels About Famous Writers?

Why Are There So Many Novels About Famous Writers?

Heller McAlpin Analyzes a Recent Surge in Biographical Fiction

By Heller McAlpin | April 29, 2016

How Books Can Help Us Survive a War

How Books Can Help Us Survive a War

A Sister Tries to Read Along With a Brother on the Front Lines

By Emily Gray Tedrowe | April 28, 2016

Jim Harrison and Thomas McGuane, a Literary Friendship

Jim Harrison and Thomas McGuane, a Literary Friendship

From the Great North to the Great West to the Great American Novel

By Nick Ripatrazone | April 28, 2016

The Joys (and Perils) of Literary Tourism

The Joys (and Perils) of Literary Tourism

Laura Barnett on Seeing Another Country Through Fiction

By Laura Barnett | April 28, 2016

How Sylvia Plath's Rare Honors Thesis Helped Me Understand My Divided Self

How Sylvia Plath's Rare Honors Thesis Helped Me Understand My Divided Self

On the Poet's Understanding of Dostoevsky—and Herself

By Nathan Smith | April 26, 2016

On the Poet Warsan Shire, Nobody's Little Sister

On the Poet Warsan Shire, Nobody's Little Sister

"I Want to Make Love But My Hair Smells of War and Running"

By Juliane Okot Bitek | April 25, 2016

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