What Is So Special About Balzac's Thousands of Characters?

What Is So Special About Balzac's Thousands of Characters?

Peter Brooks on the Extraordinary Fictional Lives of the French Master

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Lucille Clifton Didn't Just Write Poems. She Inhabited Them.

Lucille Clifton Didn't Just Write Poems. She Inhabited Them.

Tracie Morris Remembers a Reading at Cave Canem

By Tracie Morris | September 21, 2020

The Poet Who Had No Time<br> for Tragedy

The Poet Who Had No Time
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Dan Beachy-Quick on Anacreon the Greek's Lyrics of Drunken Love

By Dan Beachy-Quick | September 21, 2020

The Best War Narratives Go Beyond Brute Force

The Best War Narratives Go Beyond Brute Force

Kerry Greenwood on Lindy Cameron’s Redback

By Kerry Greenwood | September 21, 2020

In Vigdis Hjorth's Norway, Perfect Happiness Amounts to Complacency

In Vigdis Hjorth's Norway, Perfect Happiness Amounts to Complacency

Charlotte Barslund on "A Social Democracy Fraying at the Edges"

By Charlotte Barslund | September 21, 2020

Let's Stop with the Realism Versus Science Fiction and Fantasy Debate

Let's Stop with the Realism Versus Science Fiction and Fantasy Debate

Lincoln Michel Proposes a New Way to Think About Fictional Worlds

By Lincoln Michel | September 17, 2020

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How Fiction Reckons with a World in Constant Crisis

How Fiction Reckons with a World in Constant Crisis

Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum and Karen Russell in Conversation

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<em>Literary Disco</em> Discusses Jericho Brown's <em>The Tradition</em>

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This Week on The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

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Did a Revolution in Latin American Publishing Make <em>One Hundred Years of Solitude</em> the Success It Is Today?

Did a Revolution in Latin American Publishing Make One Hundred Years of Solitude the Success It Is Today?

Álvaro Santana-Acuña on the Latin American and Spanish Booms of the 1960s

By Álvaro Santana-Acuña | September 11, 2020

Why I Walked Away From <em>War and Peace</em>... Forever

Why I Walked Away From War and Peace... Forever

John Maher on Lost Love, Broken Hearts, and Tolstoy

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Daniel Mendelsohn on How Greek Tragedy Speaks to Our Present Moment

Daniel Mendelsohn on How Greek Tragedy Speaks to Our Present Moment

From the Quarantine Tapes Podcast with Paul Holdengraber

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