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Literature for This Long, Dark Night of America's Soul

Literature for This Long, Dark Night of America's Soul

Scott Esposito Looks to Art for Salvation

By Veronica Esposito | December 5, 2016

Why We Need Revolutionary Poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz More Than Ever

Why We Need Revolutionary Poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz More Than Ever

Rajat Singh on the Tangible Power of Political Poetry

By Rajat Singh | December 5, 2016

Where is All the Sibling Literature for Adults?

Where is All the Sibling Literature for Adults?

Katharine Noel on the Centrality of Sibling Relationships to YA

By Katharine Noel | December 2, 2016

On the Dangerous AIDS Myth of 'Patient Zero,' and the Book That Started It All

On the Dangerous AIDS Myth of 'Patient Zero,' and the Book That Started It All

How Convenient Storylines Can Ruin Lives

By Harron Walker | December 1, 2016

Ntozake Shange: On a Brilliant Balance of Anger and Poetry

Ntozake Shange: On a Brilliant Balance of Anger and Poetry

Michael Denneny on This Year's Langston Hughes Medal Winner

By Michael Denneny | December 1, 2016

The Gifts of Reading Are Many

The Gifts of Reading Are Many

Robert Macfarlane Reflects on What You Give When You Give a Book

By Robert Macfarlane | November 30, 2016

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By Rafia Zakaria | November 30, 2016

Storytelling vs. Oversharing in the Age of Snapchat

By Clare Sestanovich | November 29, 2016

How Pacifism Can Lead to Violence and Conflict

By Miriam Toews | November 28, 2016

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neruda's Lost Poems

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neruda's Lost Poems

On Translating His Recent Collection of Never-Before-Seen Poems

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On Love and Ruin, Terminology, and the Anxiety of Limits

By Brendan Fitzgerald | November 21, 2016

The Bolaño Effect: Latin American Literature in Translation

The Bolaño Effect: Latin American Literature in Translation

On the Great and Steady Surge in Translated Titles

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Thoreau Was Actually Funny as Hell

Thoreau Was Actually Funny as Hell

The Walden Author Isn't a Misanthrope—Just Misunderstood

By M. Allen Cunningham | November 17, 2016

Harry Potter is Actually a Great Narrative Frame for Good and Evil

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Stop Policing the Literary Reference Points of Others

By Emily Temple | November 15, 2016

What Can Historical Fiction Accomplish That History Does Not?

What Can Historical Fiction Accomplish That History Does Not?

On Time, the Past, and Einstein's Theory of Relativity

By Sabina Murray | November 10, 2016

How We Talk About Women's Lives

How We Talk About Women's Lives

New Ways of Storytelling, From Maggie Nelson to Lily Hoang to Claudia Rankine

By Kelcey Parker Ervick | November 9, 2016

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