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Good For Her: On the Reductive Meta-Storylines About Women’s Writing

Good For Her: On the Reductive Meta-Storylines About Women’s Writing

Tara Yazdan Panah Considers Vanity and Allegory

By Tara Yazdan Panah | March 27, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

”Its oxygenated prose minutely alive to the smallest variations in pressure between place and character.”

By Book Marks | March 27, 2025

Earthquake Anxiety: <br>Living—and Writing—in Fear of the Big One

Earthquake Anxiety:
Living—and Writing—in Fear of the Big One

Emma Pattee on Capturing the Human Feeling of Disaster

By Emma Pattee | March 27, 2025

Poet, Mystic, Warrior, Visionary: Reimagining the Life and Art of an Aztec Ruler Lost in Myth

Poet, Mystic, Warrior, Visionary: Reimagining the Life and Art of an Aztec Ruler Lost in Myth

Ilan Stavans Resurrects Nezahualcóyotl from Fragments of Fact and Fiction

By Ilan Stavans | March 27, 2025

Alex Higley on <em>True Failure</em> and Shark Tank

Alex Higley on True Failure and Shark Tank

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | March 27, 2025

A Small Press Book We Love: </br><em>Minor Detail</em> by Adaina Shibli

A Small Press Book We Love:
Minor Detail by Adaina Shibli

By Dan Sheehan | March 26, 2025

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Sabrina Imbler on the Power of Collectivity

By Thresholds | March 26, 2025

A Small Press Book We Love:
Provisionally Yours by Antanas Sileika

By Molly Odintz | March 25, 2025

Why Testimonial and Confessional Writing Remains Necessary in the Post-#MeToo Era

By Jamie Hood | March 25, 2025

Fergus McIntosh: “One Wonders”

Fergus McIntosh: “One Wonders”

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | March 25, 2025

Towards a New “Bad” Feminist Canon: Why Feminism Remains Essential

Towards a New “Bad” Feminist Canon: Why Feminism Remains Essential

Roxane Gay on the Importance of Expanding and Complicating Our Understanding of Contemporary Feminist Thought

By Roxane Gay | March 25, 2025

A Black Avant-Garde: How Lorraine O’Grady’s Literary Artwork Fused Poetry and Politics

A Black Avant-Garde: How Lorraine O’Grady’s Literary Artwork Fused Poetry and Politics

Peter Trachtenberg Holds up the Frame to an Iconic Artist Who Redefined Being an Icon

By Peter Trachtenberg | March 25, 2025

A return to Oz! Jane Austen! Harriet Tubman! Cults! 24 new books out today.

A return to Oz! Jane Austen! Harriet Tubman! Cults! 24 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | March 25, 2025

A Small Press Book We Love: </br><em>Little Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian)</em> by Hazel Jane Plante

A Small Press Book We Love:
Little Blue Encyclopedia (For Vivian) by Hazel Jane Plante

By Drew Broussard | March 24, 2025

On Our Problematic Obsession with First-Love Stories

On Our Problematic Obsession with First-Love Stories

Emily Usher Wants Stories That Show Crushes in All Their Messy, Authentic Glory

By Emily Usher | March 24, 2025

Constructing Blackness: Reading My Identity in Maryse Condé’s “Segu”

Constructing Blackness: Reading My Identity in Maryse Condé’s “Segu”

Mia Fowler on Traveling to Ghana and Making Sense of Herself

By Mia Fowler | March 24, 2025

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