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What Folk Music Misses About Actual Folks

What Folk Music Misses About Actual Folks

Brian Laidlaw on the Pastoral Fantasy in Music and Poetry

By Brian Laidlaw | November 9, 2018

Simone de Beauvoir:

Simone de Beauvoir: "How Many Bland and Dull Escapist Novels There Are!"

The Author of The Second Sex... Calling It Like She Sees It

By Simone de Beauvoir | November 9, 2018

The Moment Sylvia Plath Found Her Genius

The Moment Sylvia Plath Found Her Genius

Craig Morgan Teicher on the Rise of a Great Poet

By Craig Morgan Teicher | November 8, 2018

How Much Editing Was Done to Emily Dickinson's Poems After She Died?

How Much Editing Was Done to Emily Dickinson's Poems After She Died?

The Poet's Earliest Advocates Might Have Been Guilty of Overreach

By Julie Dobrow | November 8, 2018

The Queering of Boundaries in Cristina Rivera Garza's Fiction

The Queering of Boundaries in Cristina Rivera Garza's Fiction

"I Will Always Be on the Side of Imprudent Novels"

By Veronica Esposito | November 8, 2018

The Polish Army Officer Who Conjured Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

The Polish Army Officer Who Conjured Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

On Józef Czapski's Wartime Lectures

By Eric Karpeles | November 7, 2018

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Haiku: The Evolution of a Strict Poetic Game

By Hiroaki Sato | November 5, 2018

Literary Magazines Are Born to Die

By Nick Ripatrazone | November 2, 2018

The Avid Reader: Sandra Cisneros on Elena Poniatowska

By Sandra Cisneros | November 1, 2018

The Zombies of Karl Marx:  Horror in Capitalism's Wake

The Zombies of Karl Marx: Horror in Capitalism's Wake

Brains, one might say, “to each according to his need.”

By Tyler Malone | October 31, 2018

How Much Did James Joyce Base

How Much Did James Joyce Base "The Dead" on His Own Family?

Colm Tóibín on the Greatest Short Story Ever Written

By Colm Tóibín | October 30, 2018

Literary Hoax is the Most Underappreciated Genre

Literary Hoax is the Most Underappreciated Genre

From James Macpherson to Lee Israel to JT LeRoy, It's All Good

By J.W. McCormack | October 30, 2018

The Radical Moralist:  On Lionel Trilling's Literary Criticism

The Radical Moralist: On Lionel Trilling's Literary Criticism

Writing in the Cusp of the Victorian and Modern

By Adam Kirsch | October 30, 2018

Why Contemporary Art (and Literature) Needs More Sarcastic Critics

Why Contemporary Art (and Literature) Needs More Sarcastic Critics

César Aira Thinks We Could Use a Bit More "Whatever" in Art

By César Aira | October 29, 2018

In Gratitude for the Fierce Women of the World

In Gratitude for the Fierce Women of the World

Laird Hunt on the Women at the Center of His Novels

By Laird Hunt | October 29, 2018

The Year I Stopped Reading White People

The Year I Stopped Reading White People

Jerome Blanco on the Power of Writing What You Know

By Jerome Blanco | October 24, 2018

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