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

Hamlet Was a Bro Who Didn't Even Like Sex

Hamlet Was a Bro Who Didn't Even Like Sex

Jillian Keenan Makes Much Ado About 'Nothing'

By Jillian Keenan | April 25, 2016

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In Praise of Remixing Shakespeare

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

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Wide Sargasso Sea and The Limits of Bronte Feminism

By Bridget Read | April 21, 2016

On the Literature of Cyborgs, Robots, and Other Automata

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From Mechanical Ducks to Mythic Metal Giants

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

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Two Pauls, Two Loves, Two Separations

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On Diving Deeply Into the Past, To Write and Remember

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Was Yeats'

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How Poetry Transcends Political Crises Through Time

By Jay Parini | April 18, 2016

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