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A Brief History of Children's Books: Nasty, Brutish, and Short

A Brief History of Children's Books: Nasty, Brutish, and Short

Jennifer Traig on the Bizarre Violence of Early Kid Lit

By Jennifer Traig | January 14, 2019

The Virtue of Giddiness in Art

The Virtue of Giddiness in Art

Rosie Haward on Desire and Dizziness, from Bernini to Adjani

By Rosie Haward | January 14, 2019

An Unnecessarily Close Reading of <em>That</em> Scene in <em>Portnoy's Complaint</em>

An Unnecessarily Close Reading of That Scene in Portnoy's Complaint

Chopped Meat Through the Kosher Grinder

By Emily Temple | January 11, 2019

How Do You Set James Joyce’s Most Famous Story on the Stage?

How Do You Set James Joyce’s Most Famous Story on the Stage?

Feasting with the Ghosts of “The Dead”

By Leslie Pariseau | January 10, 2019

An Oddly Poetic Account of Colorblindness from the Turn of the Last Century

An Oddly Poetic Account of Colorblindness from the Turn of the Last Century

the music of light."">"We may aptly term color the music of light."

By Emily Noyes Vanderpoel | January 10, 2019

Why Does Women's Writing About Relationships Need to be “Relatable”?

Why Does Women's Writing About Relationships Need to be “Relatable”?

Hint: It's a Word Men Use to Describe Their Writing in Order to Diminish It

By Blythe Roberson | January 10, 2019

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The Unexpected Literary Pleasure of Marijuana Reviews

By Taylor Lannamann | January 9, 2019

Marcel Proust Was Almost Impossible to Edit

By Carol Clark | January 8, 2019

On the Freaky Foods of Fictional Worlds

By Lizzy Saxe | January 7, 2019

Toward an Expanded Canon of Black Literature

Toward an Expanded Canon of Black Literature

How Some Black Writers Live, and Some Die

By Mateo Askaripour | January 3, 2019

Reading Feminist Futurism in the Age of the “Female” Virtual Assistant

Reading Feminist Futurism in the Age of the “Female” Virtual Assistant

Images of Empowerment in the Literary Cyborg

By Samantha Edmonds | January 3, 2019

On Dickens’ Demons and Weird Relationship with Christmas

On Dickens’ Demons and Weird Relationship with Christmas

A Close Reading of A Christmas Carol

By Robert Douglas-Fairhurst | December 20, 2018

What Happened to the Original Version of <em>The Waste Land</em>?

What Happened to the Original Version of The Waste Land?

On One of Literature's "Minor Mysteries"

By Christopher Ricks and Jim McCue | December 19, 2018

Can the Establishment Embrace its Critics?

Can the Establishment Embrace its Critics?

Alejandro Zambra and Preti Taneja on
Authority, Shakespeare, Neoliberalism and More

By Alejandro Zambra and Preti Taneja | December 19, 2018

Stop Trying to Make <i>Pride and Prejudice</i> a Christmas Story

Stop Trying to Make Pride and Prejudice a Christmas Story

It's Not, No Matter What Hallmark Does

By Devoney Looser | December 17, 2018

On Sylvia Plath and the Many Shades of Depression

On Sylvia Plath and the Many Shades of Depression

Gabrielle Bellot Considers How a Writer's Work is Measured Against Her Death

By Gabrielle Bellot | December 13, 2018

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