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Life Got You Down? Time to Read <em>The Master and Margarita</em>

Life Got You Down? Time to Read The Master and Margarita

Or, How to Be Happy With Russian Literature

By Viv Groskop | October 16, 2018

Passing for White: A Literary History

Passing for White: A Literary History

Darryl Pinckney on the Life and Writing of Nella Larsen

By Darryl Pinckney | October 15, 2018

On the Adventuresome Dane Who Drove Across North Africa in the 1930s

On the Adventuresome Dane Who Drove Across North Africa in the 1930s

Why Knud Holmboe's Memoir is About So Much More Than Travel

By André Naffis-Sahely | October 12, 2018

The Beats' Holy Grail: The Letter That Inspired <em>On the Road</em>

The Beats' Holy Grail: The Letter That Inspired On the Road

On Neal Cassady's Rediscovered "Joan Anderson Letter"

By David L. Ulin | October 5, 2018

When a Stranger Showed Up in Our Home

When a Stranger Showed Up in Our Home

Michael Donkor on Interlopers, in Fiction and In Life

By Michael Donkor | October 5, 2018

The Queerness of Ernest Hemingway

The Queerness of Ernest Hemingway

"Hemingway came from dykes and to dykes he shall return."

By Mikaella Clements | October 4, 2018

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The Avid Reader: Helen Simpson on Anton Chekhov's "Oysters"

By Helen Simpson | October 4, 2018

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By Sarah Nicole Prickett | October 4, 2018

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How Lee Krasner Made Jackson Pollock a Star

How Lee Krasner Made Jackson Pollock a Star

Along with the Emerging Art Critic Clement Greenberg

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The Gordon Lish Lineage of Jewish American Writing

The Gordon Lish Lineage of Jewish American Writing

The Editor's Most Significant Achievement is One We Scarcely Talk About

By Josh Lambert | September 25, 2018

Nietzsche, Adorno, and a Horse Walk Into a Valley...

Nietzsche, Adorno, and a Horse Walk Into a Valley...

John Kaag on Life, Death, and the Temporary Pathos of Distance

By John Kaag | September 25, 2018

Where, Exactly, is the Overlap Between Storytelling and Technology?

Where, Exactly, is the Overlap Between Storytelling and Technology?

On Writing in a New Dark Age

By Tobias Carroll | September 24, 2018

Our Love of True Stories Has Destroyed Our Sense of Truth

Our Love of True Stories Has Destroyed Our Sense of Truth

Rebecca Wolff on Octavia Butler, Digital Emptiness, and the Unreality of the End Times

By Rebecca Wolff | September 19, 2018

Please Stop Talking About the

Please Stop Talking About the "Rise" of African Science Fiction

Tade Thompson Breaks It Down: African SFF Has Always Been Here

By Tade Thompson | September 19, 2018

Kafka’s Last Wish, Brod’s First Betrayal

Kafka’s Last Wish, Brod’s First Betrayal

On the (Non) Burning of the Manuscript

By Benjamin Balint | September 18, 2018

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