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The Secret to Faking Your Own Death

The Secret to Faking Your Own Death

Elizabeth Greenwood on the middle-aged fantasy of pseudocide

By Elizabeth Greenwood | September 26, 2016

How <em>Peyton Place</em> Comforted Me as a Closeted Teenager

How Peyton Place Comforted Me as a Closeted Teenager

Revisiting Grace Metalious's Notorious Novel 60 Years Later

By Nathan Smith | September 26, 2016

Edith Wharton's Indictment of Gilded Age Inequality: Still Relevant

Edith Wharton's Indictment of Gilded Age Inequality: Still Relevant

On The House of Mirth, Thomas Piketty, and the Literature of Income Inequality

By Colette Shade | September 22, 2016

What About a Woman's Right to Idleness?

What About a Woman's Right to Idleness?

On the Work of Writing and Leopoldine Core's When Watched

By Emily Harnett | September 21, 2016

Fear and Loathing in New England: Lev Grossman Looks Back at His First Novel

Fear and Loathing in New England: Lev Grossman Looks Back at His First Novel

"I wasn’t really a slacker; I was more just a loser."

By Lev Grossman | September 20, 2016

Is "Show Don't Tell" a Universal Truth or a Colonial Relic?

Namrata Poddar on the Western Preference for Visual Over Oral Storytelling

By Namrata Poddar | September 20, 2016

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Our Doppelgängers, Ourselves

By Alan Glynn | September 19, 2016

What Do We Mean When We Say Women's Fiction?

By Liz Kay | September 19, 2016

Finding the Unsayable in Translation

By Michael Helm | September 16, 2016

Alan Moore Goes (Very Very) Big with <em>Jerusalem</em>

Alan Moore Goes (Very Very) Big with Jerusalem

On the Ongoing Ascendancy of the Very Long Novel

By Joshua Zajdman | September 14, 2016

Affinity Konar in Poland, Revisiting the Hardest Scenes from Her Novel

Affinity Konar in Poland, Revisiting the Hardest Scenes from Her Novel

From Krakow to Auschwitz, and Letting Go of Characters

By Affinity Konar | September 14, 2016

One of the Greatest English Prose Writers of All Time?

One of the Greatest English Prose Writers of All Time?

Ruth Scurr's Unconventional Biography Reveals the Genius of John Aubrey

By Charles Arrowsmith | September 14, 2016

Real-Life British Spies <em>Did Not</em> Like John Le Carré

Real-Life British Spies Did Not Like John Le Carré

The Master Thriller Writer Recalls Lunch with Alec Guinness and a Grumpy Old Spy

By John le Carré | September 12, 2016

200 Years After the Embargo, Helen Garner Reviews <em>Pride and Prejudice</em>

200 Years After the Embargo, Helen Garner Reviews Pride and Prejudice

Very Many Spoilers Are Contained Within

By Helen Garner | September 9, 2016

How Individualism Conquered American Fiction

How Individualism Conquered American Fiction

On the "Imperial Self" and the Rejection of Social Responsibility

By Jonathon Sturgeon | September 8, 2016

Where Is Max Ritvo's Heaven?

Where Is Max Ritvo's Heaven?

On the Death of a Young Poet and the Limits of Imagination

By M. Sophia Newman | September 7, 2016

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