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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

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Official Corruption, Out-of-Control Pollution, and Rapid Change

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"Poems R Just Less Popular Memes"

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The Moral Arc of N.K. Jemisin's Universe Bends Toward Apocalypse

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Black Protest Writing, From W.E.B. DuBois to Kendrick Lamar

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Walking a Mile in Daniel Boone's Moccasins

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