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Alix Ohlin: How to Write—and Not—About the Struggle to Have a Child

Alix Ohlin: How to Write—and Not—About the Struggle to Have a Child

On Motherhood, Fertility, and Gendered Readings of Women's Books

By Alix Ohlin | June 26, 2019

How the Alphabet Helped Virginia Woolf Understand<br> Her Father

How the Alphabet Helped Virginia Woolf Understand
Her Father

On the Poetry of a Precocious Nine-Year-Old

By Jacquelyn Ardam | June 26, 2019

How Alison Bechdel Understands Her Life as Fiction

How Alison Bechdel Understands Her Life as Fiction

Gabrielle Bellot on the Groundbreaking Memoir Fun Home

By Gabrielle Bellot | June 26, 2019

The Complex Queer Literary History of Fire Island

The Complex Queer Literary History of Fire Island

Jack Parlett on the Storied Legacy of a Legendary Long Island Getaway

By Jack Parlett | June 25, 2019

The Poetic Pleasures and Pains We Can Only Express in Dutch

The Poetic Pleasures and Pains We Can Only Express in Dutch

Sadiqa de Meijer on How Landscapes Change as Our Language Does

By Sadiqa de Meijer | June 25, 2019

Catherine Lacey on the Searching Spirit Behind Lore Segal's Long Career

Catherine Lacey on the Searching Spirit Behind Lore Segal's Long Career

From the Introduction to The Journal I Did Not Keep

By Catherine Lacey | June 25, 2019

Best Reviewed
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The Many Ways We Create the 'Other'

By Louise Aronson | June 25, 2019

Annie Proulx on One of Her Favorite Short Stories

By Annie Proulx | June 24, 2019

On Toxic Corporate Culture in Contemporary Fiction

By Johanna Berkman | June 24, 2019

The Grand Cultural Influence of Octavia Butler

The Grand Cultural Influence of Octavia Butler

Happy Birthday to a Legend of Literature

By Emily Temple | June 21, 2019

Viet Thanh Nguyen on What David Wong Louie Meant to Him at 20

Viet Thanh Nguyen on What David Wong Louie Meant to Him at 20

Reading Pangs of Love and Discovering Asian American Literary Voices

By Viet Thanh Nguyen | June 21, 2019

On the Tricky Business of Creating a National Anthology: Irish Edition

On the Tricky Business of Creating a National Anthology: Irish Edition

Lucy Caldwell Reflects on What We Mean By a National Literature

By Lucy Caldwell | June 21, 2019

The Comic Tragedy of a Narrator with No Sense of Self

The Comic Tragedy of a Narrator with No Sense of Self

Danielle Dutton Close-Reads Ann Quin's Berg

By Danielle Dutton | June 21, 2019

The Anti-Capitalist Power of Jean de La Ville de Mirmont's Fiction

The Anti-Capitalist Power of Jean de La Ville de Mirmont's Fiction

André Naffis-Sahely on His New Translation of a Long-Neglected Existentialist Novella

By André Naffis-Sahely | June 21, 2019

The Poet and the Monk: <br>An Anne Sexton Love Story

The Poet and the Monk:
An Anne Sexton Love Story

The Love Affair That Started with a Fan Letter

By Nick Ripatrazone | June 20, 2019

50 of the Best One-Star Reviews of <em>The Picture of Dorian Gray</em>

50 of the Best One-Star Reviews of The Picture of Dorian Gray

"Pretentious, pedestrian, predictable, and pedantic."

By Emily Temple | June 20, 2019

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