On the Third Most Popular Poet of All Time

On the Third Most Popular Poet of All Time

Philip Metres Reveals His Family Connections to Khalil Gibran, Poet of 'The Prophet'

By Philip Metres | September 17, 2018

Why Literature Loves Lists

Why Literature Loves Lists

From Rabelais to Didion, an Incomplete List of Listmakers

By Brian Dillon | September 14, 2018

The Time a Bitter Rival Stole a Manuscript From William H. Gass

The Time a Bitter Rival Stole a Manuscript From William H. Gass

Never Trust a Man Named 'Edward Drogo Mork'

By Nick Ripatrazone | September 13, 2018

Surviving Modern Times: Meditation Through Status Updates

Surviving Modern Times: Meditation Through Status Updates

Matthew Vollmer on Life in the Upside Down

By Matthew Vollmer | September 13, 2018

How <em>The Left Hand of Darkness</em> Changed Everything

How The Left Hand of Darkness Changed Everything

Ursula K. Le Guin's Classic Has Always Been as Relevant as it is Right Now

By Becky Chambers | September 10, 2018

Toward a Trans Literature of the Everyday

Toward a Trans Literature of the Everyday

Veronica Esposito on Writing by Gabriela Weiner, Arlene Stein, and Casey Plett

By Veronica Esposito | September 10, 2018

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Getting Inside the Mind of a Plagiarist

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The Pleasures of John Ashbery's "Difficult" Poetry

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In Praise of Sex Writing That's About More Than Being Sexy

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"I Want to Be Able to Read Stories That Don't Shy Away from Pain and Complexity"

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The Art of the Late Bloomer

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On the 18th-Century Artist Mary Delany and the Power of Second Acts

By Corinne Purtill | August 22, 2018

The Time I Went Fishing with Barry Hannah

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William Giraldi in Praise of the "Rebel of the English Language"

By William Giraldi | August 20, 2018

Making the Case for the Surreal Memoir

Making the Case for the Surreal Memoir

Pushing the Limits of Form, from Leonora Carrington to Wendy C. Ortiz

By Tobias Carroll | August 20, 2018

Why Don't More Boys Read <em>Little Women</em>?

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the educational oblivion into which it has fallen."

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On the Slyly Subversive Writing of E.M. Forster

On the Slyly Subversive Writing of E.M. Forster

If a Happy Ending Required Marriage, Forster Was All for Pessimism

By Wendy Moffat | August 16, 2018

The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is the Best Place on the Internet

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Self-Referential, Argumentative, and Never Dispassionate

By MH Rowe | August 16, 2018

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