Why Are There So Many Novels About Famous Writers?

Why Are There So Many Novels About Famous Writers?

Heller McAlpin Analyzes a Recent Surge in Biographical Fiction

By Heller McAlpin | April 29, 2016

How Books Can Help Us Survive a War

How Books Can Help Us Survive a War

A Sister Tries to Read Along With a Brother on the Front Lines

By Emily Gray Tedrowe | April 28, 2016

Jim Harrison and Thomas McGuane, a Literary Friendship

Jim Harrison and Thomas McGuane, a Literary Friendship

From the Great North to the Great West to the Great American Novel

By Nick Ripatrazone | April 28, 2016

The Joys (and Perils) of Literary Tourism

The Joys (and Perils) of Literary Tourism

Laura Barnett on Seeing Another Country Through Fiction

By Laura Barnett | April 28, 2016

How Sylvia Plath's Rare Honors Thesis Helped Me Understand My Divided Self

How Sylvia Plath's Rare Honors Thesis Helped Me Understand My Divided Self

On the Poet's Understanding of Dostoevsky—and Herself

By Nathan Smith | April 26, 2016

On the Poet Warsan Shire, Nobody's Little Sister

On the Poet Warsan Shire, Nobody's Little Sister

"I Want to Make Love But My Hair Smells of War and Running"

By Juliane Okot Bitek | April 25, 2016

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Hamlet Was a Bro Who Didn't Even Like Sex

By Jillian Keenan | April 25, 2016

In Praise of Remixing Shakespeare

By Andrew Hartley | April 25, 2016

What Was Shakespeare's Central Philosophy?

By Ed Simon | April 25, 2016

If <em>Jane Eyre</em> Came Out Today Would It Be Marketed As Genre?

If Jane Eyre Came Out Today Would It Be Marketed As Genre?

On Proto-Feminist and Commercial Powerhouse Charlotte Brontë

By Lyndsay Faye | April 21, 2016

Charlotte Brontë May Have Started the Fire, But Jean Rhys Burned Down the House

Charlotte Brontë May Have Started the Fire, But Jean Rhys Burned Down the House

Wide Sargasso Sea and The Limits of Bronte Feminism

By Bridget Read | April 21, 2016

On the Literature of Cyborgs, Robots, and Other Automata

On the Literature of Cyborgs, Robots, and Other Automata

From Mechanical Ducks to Mythic Metal Giants

By Michael Peck | April 21, 2016

Searching for Salvation in Charlotte Brontë's <em>Villette</em>

Searching for Salvation in Charlotte Brontë's Villette

Two Pauls, Two Loves, Two Separations

By Rachel Vorona Cote | April 21, 2016

My Life in a Buddhist Cult with

My Life in a Buddhist Cult with "The Master"

On Diving Deeply Into the Past, To Write and Remember

By Kirstin Allio | April 21, 2016

Mitchell S. Jackson's <em>The Residue Years</em>, Part Two

Mitchell S. Jackson's The Residue Years, Part Two

The Story of a Writer's Life, from Prison to Publication

By Literary Hub | April 20, 2016

Mitchell S. Jackson's <em>The Residue Years</em>, Part One

Mitchell S. Jackson's The Residue Years, Part One

Premiering the Story of One Writer's Path from Prison to Publication

By Literary Hub | April 19, 2016

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