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Currybooks: On Authenticity and Our Expectations of South Asian Writers

Currybooks: On Authenticity and Our Expectations of South Asian Writers

Diasporic Writers Have to Play Both Tourist and Tour Guide

By Naben Ruthnum | October 23, 2017

How the Oldest Stories Can Give Us the Best Perspective

How the Oldest Stories Can Give Us the Best Perspective

On War, Troy, and the Slow Time of Classic Literature

By Veronica Esposito | October 23, 2017

On Borders, White Space, and Saying the Unsayable

On Borders, White Space, and Saying the Unsayable

"A Poem’s Virtue is in its Lament Against Powerlessness"

By Sasha Pimentel | October 20, 2017

When Climate Change Comes for the Fairy Tale Forest

When Climate Change Comes for the Fairy Tale Forest

What Else is Lost When an Iconic Landscape is Destroyed?

By Olivia Campbell | October 19, 2017

Octavia Butler: The Brutalities of the Past Are All Around This

Octavia Butler: The Brutalities of the Past Are All Around This

Gabrielle Bellot on a Writer Who Changed Her Life

By Gabrielle Bellot | October 17, 2017

14 Classic Works of Literature Hated By Famous Authors

14 Classic Works of Literature Hated By Famous Authors

"I got a little bored after a time. I mean, the road seemed to be awfully long."

By Emily Temple | October 16, 2017

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By Mikaella Clements | October 13, 2017

Why the Line Between Fact and Fiction is Even Blurrier Online

Why the Line Between Fact and Fiction is Even Blurrier Online

"The Internet Offers a Secret Life to Everybody"

By Andrew O'Hagan | October 12, 2017

Jane Austen’s <em>Emma</em> Was Basically Torn Apart in Workshop

Jane Austen’s Emma Was Basically Torn Apart in Workshop

On the Early Reception of a Classic Novel, on Both Sides of the Atlantic

By Juliette Wells | October 11, 2017

The Little-Known Friendships of Iconic Women Writers

The Little-Known Friendships of Iconic Women Writers

Why Have They Been Mythologized as Solitary Eccentrics or Isolated Geniuses?

By Emily Midorikawa and Emma Sweeney | October 11, 2017

How Shirley Jackson Makes Us Lose Our Minds

How Shirley Jackson Makes Us Lose Our Minds

Ottessa Moshfegh on Insanity, Mistaken Identity, and the Dark Tales

By Ottessa Moshfegh | October 10, 2017

Is America in a Period of Moral Decline?

Is America in a Period of Moral Decline?

John Biguenet on Summoning the Resolve to Call Out Evil Wherever it Lives

By John Biguenet | October 5, 2017

If Your Book Presumes an Entirely White World, It's Not Universal

If Your Book Presumes an Entirely White World, It's Not Universal

Why Writing and Reading About Race is a Privilege, Not a Burden

By Sarah LaBrie | October 5, 2017

How Death Became Big Business in America

How Death Became Big Business in America

And Why We Need to Be Less Dismissive of Other Cultures' Funeral Rituals

By Caitlin Doughty | October 4, 2017

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