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Behind the Dedications: Hunter S. Thompson

Behind the Dedications: Hunter S. Thompson

A look at the family, friends and substances to which Thompson dedicated his books

By Arvind Dilawar | February 20, 2017

In Praise of the New Aphorism, No Longer Just For Great Men

In Praise of the New Aphorism, No Longer Just For Great Men

How Sarah Manguso, Maggie Nelson, and Rivka Galchen Are Making It New

By Kristen Martin | February 16, 2017

Daniel Handler on the Best Writer You Don't Know: Rachel Ingalls

Daniel Handler on the Best Writer You Don't Know: Rachel Ingalls

Novellas? Long Short Stories? Whatever They Are, They're Brilliant

By Daniel Handler | February 14, 2017

Everything I Know About Sex I Learned From Edna St. Vincent Millay

Everything I Know About Sex I Learned From Edna St. Vincent Millay

April Smith on Learning from a Dead Poet What Life Might Be Like

By April Smith | February 14, 2017

How the Powerful Fear Art: Lessons from John Berger

How the Powerful Fear Art: Lessons from John Berger

On Fascism, Art, and Fighting with Orwell and Berger

By Veronica Esposito | February 13, 2017

Edgar Allan Poe, Editor and Original Hatchet Man

Edgar Allan Poe, Editor and Original Hatchet Man

On the Literary Magazine in which "The Fall of the House of Usher" First Appeared

By Nathan Scott McNamara | February 9, 2017

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Behind the Dedications: James Baldwin

By Arvind Dilawar | February 8, 2017

How Fiction Tackles Global Economic Uncertainty

By Tobias Carroll | February 7, 2017

Noir is the Perfect Genre for Telling a Millennial Story

By Emily Harnett | February 6, 2017

George Washington: 'Citizens By Birth Or Choice' Will Make America Great

George Washington: 'Citizens By Birth Or Choice' Will Make America Great

Historian John Avlon on the First President's Farewell Address

By Charles Arrowsmith | February 6, 2017

What Was Chick Lit? A Brief History From the Inside

What Was Chick Lit? A Brief History From the Inside

Lucinda Rosenfeld Looks Back at a Genre That Deserved Better

By Lucinda Rosenfeld | February 3, 2017

Why We Need More Trans Protagonists for Kids

Why We Need More Trans Protagonists for Kids

For Trans Youth, Representation Can be Critical to Survival

By Britni de la Cretaz | February 2, 2017

Reclaiming <em>Of Mice and Men</em> from Parody

Reclaiming Of Mice and Men from Parody

I will name him George, and I will hug him and pet him and squeeze him

By Emily Temple | February 2, 2017

Novelist Nadifa Mohamed on the Impact of Trump's Muslim Ban

Novelist Nadifa Mohamed on the Impact of Trump's Muslim Ban

Life in an Ever-Growing Climate of Fear, Mistrust, and Uncertainty

By John Freeman | January 31, 2017

How to Represent Absence

How to Represent Absence

On Deep Time, Pre-History, and Loss

By Albert Goldbarth | January 30, 2017

Crime and Murder Among the Mormons

Crime and Murder Among the Mormons

Lisa Levy on the Unlikely Utah Noir of Mette Ivie Harrison

By Lisa Levy | January 30, 2017

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