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Can We Talk About How Austen's Characters Tend to Blur Together?

Can We Talk About How Austen's Characters Tend to Blur Together?

Emily Hodgson Anderson on Jane and Jane and Jane

By Emily Hodgson Anderson | March 18, 2020

How J.R.R. Tolkien Blocked W.H. Auden From Writing a Book About Him

How J.R.R. Tolkien Blocked W.H. Auden From Writing a Book About Him

"I regard such things as premature impertinences."

By Emily Temple | March 17, 2020

Talking to Poets About Their Love of Crossword Puzzles

Talking to Poets About Their Love of Crossword Puzzles

Adrienne Raphel Talks to Alice Notely, Fatima Asghar, and More

By Adrienne Raphel | March 17, 2020

What Happens to Writing When We Stop Pretending Anything Makes Sense?

What Happens to Writing When We Stop Pretending Anything Makes Sense?

Ysabelle Cheung on Coronavirus, Hong Kong, and Fragmentation

By Ysabelle Cheung | March 16, 2020

The Unexpectedly Subversive World of Romance Novels

The Unexpectedly Subversive World of Romance Novels

Helen Taylor on Books That Truly Embrace Female Autonomy and Desire

By Helen Taylor | March 16, 2020

For Gothic Heroines, Haunted Houses Are Always Too Big

For Gothic Heroines, Haunted Houses Are Always Too Big

Jane Healey on Secret Corridors and Impossible Floorplans

By Jane Healey | March 16, 2020

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Refuge, Gossip, and Revelation on the Private Book Club Circuit

By Marjan Kamali | March 13, 2020

What We Can Learn (and Should Unlearn) From Albert Camus's The Plague

By Liesl Schillinger | March 13, 2020

Snobs, Sophisticates, and Scathing Reviews in Wartime London

By D.J. Taylor | March 13, 2020

A Close Reading of the Chilling Prologue of Donna Tartt's <em>The Secret History</em>

A Close Reading of the Chilling Prologue of Donna Tartt's The Secret History

"Why, looking for new ferns."

By Emily Temple | March 12, 2020

Cultivating Solitude, <br>The Henry James' Way

Cultivating Solitude,
The Henry James' Way

On “the lonely celibate who has to boil his own pot.”

By Fenton Johnson | March 10, 2020

Pintle, Gudgeon, Chock: On the Rich, Wonderful (and Odd) Vocabulary of Sailing

Pintle, Gudgeon, Chock: On the Rich, Wonderful (and Odd) Vocabulary of Sailing

Luis Jaramillo Heads to the Hudson for a Break From Writing

By Luis Jaramillo | March 10, 2020

On Shirley Hazzard and the Antipodean Gaze

On Shirley Hazzard and the Antipodean Gaze

Michelle de Kretser on One of Australia's Great Writers

By Michelle de Krester | March 9, 2020

How Can Palestinian Writers Resist Consumption by Colonial Narratives?

How Can Palestinian Writers Resist Consumption by Colonial Narratives?

George Abraham on Imagination and Reinvention

By George Abraham | March 6, 2020

How Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Continues to Show Up in Literary Fiction

How Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Continues to Show Up in Literary Fiction

David Schwartz on the Formal Experimentation of Carmen Maria Machado, Rick Moody, and Julio Cortázar

By David Lerner Schwartz | March 5, 2020

The Hidden Power of the Passive Protagonist

The Hidden Power of the Passive Protagonist

Jessi Jezewska Stevens on Characters with Perpetual Potential

By Jessi Jezewska Stevens | March 5, 2020

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