The Creative Power of Rage: On Fictionalizing the Lives of Righteously Violent Historical Women

The Creative Power of Rage: On Fictionalizing the Lives of Righteously Violent Historical Women

Gwen E. Kirby on Her Literary “Stabby Period”

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The Disorientation and Relief of Owning My Submissiveness

The Disorientation and Relief of Owning My Submissiveness

Rachel Krantz, author of Open, on the Power of “Daddy”

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My Hundred-Year-Old Boyfriend: On Hermann Hesse’s <em>Siddhartha</em>

My Hundred-Year-Old Boyfriend: On Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha

Andre Bagoo Looks Back on Some Very Earthly Attachments

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The 6 Self-Help Books That Changed My Life

The 6 Self-Help Books That Changed My Life

Radhika Sanghani Recommends Uplifting Reads

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Dissolving Genre: Toward Finding New Ways to Write About the World

Dissolving Genre: Toward Finding New Ways to Write About the World

Ingrid Horrocks on Reimagining the Relationship Between the Human and the Non-Human

By Ingrid Horrocks | January 6, 2022

Brooklyn Is Where the Heart Is: On Leaving Home to Write About It

Brooklyn Is Where the Heart Is: On Leaving Home to Write About It

Xochitl Gonzalez Considers the Power of Memory in Creating Literary Detail

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The Weaponization of Quiet: On the Subtle Horror of Ayşegül Savaş’s <em>White on White</em>

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Orhan Pamuk on a Lost Pool, and the World Beneath Its Surface

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Why You Shouldn’t Read Historical Fiction to Learn History

Juhea Kim on the Role of Literature in Lessons About Humanity

By Juhea Kim | December 20, 2021

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