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How Shirley Jackson Makes Us Lose Our Minds

How Shirley Jackson Makes Us Lose Our Minds

Ottessa Moshfegh on Insanity, Mistaken Identity, and the Dark Tales

By Ottessa Moshfegh | October 10, 2017

Is America in a Period of Moral Decline?

Is America in a Period of Moral Decline?

John Biguenet on Summoning the Resolve to Call Out Evil Wherever it Lives

By John Biguenet | October 5, 2017

If Your Book Presumes an Entirely White World, It's Not Universal

If Your Book Presumes an Entirely White World, It's Not Universal

Why Writing and Reading About Race is a Privilege, Not a Burden

By Sarah LaBrie | October 5, 2017

How Death Became Big Business in America

How Death Became Big Business in America

And Why We Need to Be Less Dismissive of Other Cultures' Funeral Rituals

By Caitlin Doughty | October 4, 2017

A Tale of Two Sylvias: On the <em>Letters</em> Cover Controversy

A Tale of Two Sylvias: On the Letters Cover Controversy

What Do We Look For in a Literary Icon?

By Nichole LeFebvre | October 3, 2017

The Prettiest Way to Die

The Prettiest Way to Die

Consumption Chic and the 19th-Century Cult of the Invalid

By Christina Newland | October 3, 2017

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Ralph Ellison's Tragicomic Soul

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Art, Meat, and the Lives and Deaths of Animals

By Hayley Singer | October 2, 2017

Looking at the World Through My Character's Eyes

By Alison Moore | September 29, 2017

My Own Personal Herakles

My Own Personal Herakles

On Love, Loss, and the Fire at the Center of the Earth

By Renée Branum | September 29, 2017

We Have Always Dreamed of Other Worlds

We Have Always Dreamed of Other Worlds

Gabrielle Bellot on Literary Stargazing and Reckoning with the Infinite

By Gabrielle Bellot | September 29, 2017

Class, Race and the Case for Genre Fiction in the Canon

Class, Race and the Case for Genre Fiction in the Canon

Adrian McKinty on Reading the Real Giants of Literature

By Adrian McKinty | September 27, 2017

The 1980s Tell-All That Scandalized Literary London

The 1980s Tell-All That Scandalized Literary London

David Plante's Difficult Women: Jean Rhys, Germaine Greer, and Sonia Orwell

By Scott Spencer | September 27, 2017

Marianne Moore's Sexist Reception

Marianne Moore's Sexist Reception

She Was "Too Critical to Be a Poet and Too Poetic to Be a Critic"

By Evan Kindley | September 27, 2017

We Can't Ignore H.P. Lovecraft's White Supremacy

We Can't Ignore H.P. Lovecraft's White Supremacy

Lovecraftian Narratives of Race Persist in Contemporary Politics

By Wes House | September 26, 2017

Did Mark Twain Anticipate the Nazis?

Did Mark Twain Anticipate the Nazis?

Rebecca West Seems to Think He Did

By Arvind Dilawar | September 22, 2017

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