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Robin Lane Fox on Why We Still Read Homer

Robin Lane Fox on Why We Still Read Homer

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | November 8, 2023

Showing the Human in the Inhumane: Why Lindsay Hunter Loves True Crime

Showing the Human in the Inhumane: Why Lindsay Hunter Loves True Crime

On Crime Storytelling and Why Aiming for Closure Can Be Problematic

By Lindsay Hunter | November 7, 2023

Liquid Repetition: Drew Johnson on the Experience of Reading Marguerite Young’s <em>Miss Macintosh, My Darling</em>

Liquid Repetition: Drew Johnson on the Experience of Reading Marguerite Young’s Miss Macintosh, My Darling

"The book was an artifact upon arrival, a tricky thing for the new of avant-garde to be."

By Drew Johnson | November 7, 2023

How Diane Seuss Wrote The Poem That Matters Most to Her

How Diane Seuss Wrote The Poem That Matters Most to Her

The Poet Explains the Creative Process Behind "Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl"

By Literary Hub | November 6, 2023

Pantheons of the Past in the Present: A Reading List of Modern African Books Based on Mythology

Pantheons of the Past in the Present: A Reading List of Modern African Books Based on Mythology

Wole Talabi Recommends Namina Forna, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Chịkọdịlị Emelụmadụ, and More

By Wole Talabi | November 3, 2023

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

Featuring New Titles by Carlo Rovelli, Tananarive Due, Alice McDermott, Caster Semenya, and More

By Book Marks | November 3, 2023

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Love and Looking: On What We (Don't) See Together

By Devorah Baum | November 2, 2023

Jesse David Fox On Cheap Laughs

By The Maris Review | November 2, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | November 2, 2023

Shir Alon and Joseph Farag on Palestinian Literature

Shir Alon and Joseph Farag on Palestinian Literature

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | November 2, 2023

Silvia Garcia-Moreno on <em>Dracula</em>’s Depictions and Descendants

Silvia Garcia-Moreno on Dracula’s Depictions and Descendants

Vampires! Vampires! Vampires!

By Silvia Moreno-Garcia | October 31, 2023

On The Many Hauntings of Langston Hughes

On The Many Hauntings of Langston Hughes

Nick Ripatrazone Considers the Poet's Close Encounters With the Supernatural

By Nick Ripatrazone | October 31, 2023

“A monster can look like whatever it wants”: On the Allure of Literary Monsters

“A monster can look like whatever it wants”: On the Allure of Literary Monsters

Adrian Van Young on the Monstrous Stories That Shaped Him

By Adrian Van Young | October 31, 2023

The Scariest, Creepiest, and Most Frightening Animals in Fiction

The Scariest, Creepiest, and Most Frightening Animals in Fiction

Justin C. Key Finds the Best (or Worst?) in Horror

By Justin C Key | October 31, 2023

Something Is Rotten in Horror’s Use of Pedagogy

Something Is Rotten in Horror’s Use of Pedagogy

Tyler Malone on the Canker in the Classroom

By Tyler Malone | October 31, 2023

A Master Class in Words: On the Vitality and Vividness of <em>The Iliad</em>'s Opening Lines

A Master Class in Words: On the Vitality and Vividness of The Iliad's Opening Lines

Robin Lane Fox Considers the Movement of Homer's Epic

By Robin Lane Fox | October 30, 2023

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