• Literary Criticism

    Political History

    Remember, Remember Where the Word ‘Guy’ Comes From

    By Allan Metcalf  November 27, 2019
    Reading Lists

    Six Novels That Capture Detroit, Past and Present

    By Jodie Adams Kirshner  November 27, 2019
    Fiction vs. Nonfiction

    How We See Iran: A Brief History of Fictions at a Distance

    By Ali Araghi  November 26, 2019
    Parenting

    Two Graphic Novels Ask:
    Why Have Children in an Uncertain World?

    By Michelle Delgado  November 25, 2019
    Travel

    Meditations on a Sunday Morning While Driving on Sunset Boulevard

    By Sam Farahmand  November 25, 2019
    Publishing

    Naguib Mahfouz’s Daughter Fights to Preserve Her Father’s Legacy

    By Karim Zidan  November 25, 2019
    Goths

    The Long History of Afrogoth, from Toni Morrison to M. Lamar

    By Literary Hub  November 25, 2019
    Climate Change Library

    Hopepunk and Solarpunk: On Climate Narratives That Go Beyond the Apocalypse

    By Alyssa Hull  November 22, 2019
    Unexpected Outcomes

    How George Eliot Became a Social Outcast at the Height of Her Fame

    By Norman Lebrecht  November 22, 2019
    Cultural Criticism

    Is the Debutante One of the Most Misunderstood Characters in Literature?

    By Maitreyi Anantharaman  November 21, 2019
    Mythology

    Who Were the Scribes Who Actually Wrote Down the Epic of Gilgamesh?

    By Michael Schmidt  November 21, 2019
    Mythology

    On Rediscovering the Natural World Through Ovid

    By Nina MacLaughlin  November 20, 2019
    Vietnam

    How the Vietnam War Changed
    Political Poetry

    By Daniel H. Weiss  November 20, 2019
    Mythology

    What the Retelling of Myths Reveals of the Teller

    By Jennifer S. Cheng  November 20, 2019
    Influences

    On the Books That Most Influenced the Great David Bowie

    By John O'Connell  November 19, 2019
    Prison memoir

    Reading Albert Woodfox’s Solitary While Being Detained at Guantánamo

    By Literary Hub  November 19, 2019
    Mathematics

    On the Sci-Fi Pioneer Who Brought Math to the Masses

    By David Lindsay Roberts  November 19, 2019
    Archetypes

    On Jane Austen, Elizabeth Warren, and the Legacy of the Stoic Woman

    By Rachel Vorona Cote  November 18, 2019
    Latin

    Look, Latin Is Not Useless, Neither
    Is It Dead

    By Nicola Gardini  November 18, 2019
    Film

    On Dennis Cooper’s Elegant Jump to Film

    By Jeff Jackson  November 18, 2019
    Classic Novels

    On the Unpublished Ending of Picnic at Hanging Rock, and Other Mysteries

    By Romy Ash  November 15, 2019
    Public Intellectuals

    The Secret Society of Women Writers in Oxford in the 1920s

    By Mo Moulton  November 14, 2019
    True Crime

    The Elusive Lure of Peace and Reconciliation in Northern Ireland

    By Philip Metres  November 14, 2019
    Teachers

    High School Crush: On Literary Longing and Misdirected Lust

    By Janet Manley  November 13, 2019
    Language

    Let’s Talk About Love: A Lost Vocabulary of Amorous Terms

    By Paul Anthony Jones  November 13, 2019
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