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Renee Gladman Makes Prose Spiral

Gatsby’s Lost Plaintiffs: On the Absurd Fiction of Legal Equality in America

5 Great Literary Mysteries Set in Coastal Massachusetts

Eurydice at 18: On the Off-Broadway Revival of Sarah Ruhl’s Beloved Play

Sibling Duos, Trios, Quartets, and More: Nine Stories and Folktales Featuring Sisters

Hal Ebbott on Writing a Novel of Male Friendship

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The Dark Magic of Words: Why Fascism and Illiberalism Are So Seductive to Writers

“Fidelity to Both Pleasure and Humiliation.” On M.F.K. Fisher’s Feminist Realism

Diana Arterian on Agrippina the Younger, Writing Historical Women, and Poetry as Liberty

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“Politics is Everywhere.” A Close and Highly Critical Reading of English PEN’s Charter

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