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Affinity Konar in Poland, Revisiting the Hardest Scenes from Her Novel

Affinity Konar in Poland, Revisiting the Hardest Scenes from Her Novel

From Krakow to Auschwitz, and Letting Go of Characters

By Affinity Konar | September 14, 2016

One of the Greatest English Prose Writers of All Time?

One of the Greatest English Prose Writers of All Time?

Ruth Scurr's Unconventional Biography Reveals the Genius of John Aubrey

By Charles Arrowsmith | September 14, 2016

Real-Life British Spies <em>Did Not</em> Like John Le Carré

Real-Life British Spies Did Not Like John Le Carré

The Master Thriller Writer Recalls Lunch with Alec Guinness and a Grumpy Old Spy

By John le Carré | September 12, 2016

200 Years After the Embargo, Helen Garner Reviews <em>Pride and Prejudice</em>

200 Years After the Embargo, Helen Garner Reviews Pride and Prejudice

Very Many Spoilers Are Contained Within

By Helen Garner | September 9, 2016

How Individualism Conquered American Fiction

How Individualism Conquered American Fiction

On the "Imperial Self" and the Rejection of Social Responsibility

By Jonathon Sturgeon | September 8, 2016

Where Is Max Ritvo's Heaven?

Where Is Max Ritvo's Heaven?

On the Death of a Young Poet and the Limits of Imagination

By M. Sophia Newman | September 7, 2016

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Interview With a Gatekeeper: Nan Talese

By Kerri Arsenault | September 7, 2016

How I Spent My Summer Vacation: With Ferrante and Knausgaard

By Stephanie Grant | September 7, 2016

Spoiler Alerts: Any Story Worth Telling Doesn't Need Them

By Jonathan Russell Clark | September 6, 2016

Mario Vargas Llosa: How Global Entertainment Killed Culture

Mario Vargas Llosa: How Global Entertainment Killed Culture

From Eliot to Steiner, Debord to Martel, Some Ideas on the Death of Meaning

By Mario Vargas Llosa | September 6, 2016

Who Gets to Decide What Counts as “English”?

Who Gets to Decide What Counts as “English”?

On Decolonizing Language

By Gabrielle Bellot | August 31, 2016

Seamus Heaney on William Wordsworth's One Big Truth

Seamus Heaney on William Wordsworth's One Big Truth

An Indispensable Figure in the Evolution of Modern Writing

By Seamus Heaney | August 30, 2016

How a Self-Published Writer of Gay Erotica Beat Sci-Fi's Sad Puppies at their Own Game

How a Self-Published Writer of Gay Erotica Beat Sci-Fi's Sad Puppies at their Own Game

And What it Taught Me About Pushing through Writer's Block

By M. Sophia Newman | August 26, 2016

Why Can't Irish Writers Escape the Sea?

Why Can't Irish Writers Escape the Sea?

Brendan Mac Evilly Goes in Search of a Nice Spot to Swim

By Brendan Mac Evilly | August 26, 2016

In Defense of Trash

In Defense of Trash

Why Pleasures Should Never Be Guilty, From Valley of the Dolls to Bonkbusters

By Lisa Levy | August 25, 2016

A Masterpiece of Latin American Literature Finally Appears in English

A Masterpiece of Latin American Literature Finally Appears in English

Antonio di Benedetto's Zama is Here

By Esther Allen | August 23, 2016

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