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Is It Really Possible To Map Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County?

Is It Really Possible To Map Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County?

On Shifting Rivers, Roving Farmsteads, and Place in Fiction

By Evan Fleischer | July 27, 2018

Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of

Color or Fruit? On the Unlikely Etymology of "Orange"

Yeah, But Can You Rhyme Something With It?

By David Scott Kastan with Stephen Farthing | July 27, 2018

The Nun Who Wrote Letters to the Greatest Poets of Her Generation

The Nun Who Wrote Letters to the Greatest Poets of Her Generation

From Wallace Stevens to Seamus Heaney, on the Correspondence
of Sister Mary Bernetta Quinn

By Nick Ripatrazone | July 27, 2018

When a Decades-Long Marriage Reaches a Breaking Point

When a Decades-Long Marriage Reaches a Breaking Point

Ann Pearlman on How Quickly a Life Can Crash

By Ann Pearlman | July 27, 2018

13 Literary Writers Who Have Adapted Other People's Books for the Screen

13 Literary Writers Who Have Adapted Other People's Books for the Screen

Or: When Aldous Huxley Wrote Pride and Prejudice

By Emily Temple | July 26, 2018

How I Wrote My Memoir, One Notecard at a Time

How I Wrote My Memoir, One Notecard at a Time

Or: How to Fit Your Trauma in a Recipe Box

By Melissa Stephenson | July 26, 2018

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

Collecting the Last, Lost Stories of WWII

By Bart Van Es | July 26, 2018

Teaching Yoga to My Captors in a Somali Pirate Villa

By Michael Scott Moore | July 25, 2018

What Future is There for America's Desert Cities?

By Saritha Ramakrishna | July 25, 2018

What is the Morally Appropriate Language in Which to Think and Write?

What is the Morally Appropriate Language in Which to Think and Write?

Arundhati Roy on the Complex, Shifting Politics of Language and Translation in India

By Arundhati Roy | July 25, 2018

On the Rise and Fall of America's Most Famous Dessert

On the Rise and Fall of America's Most Famous Dessert

Allie Rowbottom and a Brief History of Jell-O

By Allie Rowbottom | July 25, 2018

The Thing About Pig Heads

The Thing About Pig Heads

So There I Was, Holding the Two Halves of a Pig’s Brain in My Palm

By Camas Davis | July 24, 2018

Like Most Americans, I Was Raised to Be A White Man

Like Most Americans, I Was Raised to Be A White Man

On Identity, Power, and Realizing What It Means to Be an "Other"

By Onnesha Roychoudhuri | July 24, 2018

Amelia Earhart's Mysterious Death Shouldn't Overshadow Her Life

Amelia Earhart's Mysterious Death Shouldn't Overshadow Her Life

On the Amazing Female Flyers of Early Aviation

By Keith O'Brien | July 24, 2018

Visiting a Secret Museum in the Middle of the Uzbek Desert

Visiting a Secret Museum in the Middle of the Uzbek Desert

Creating a Refuge for Art Targeted by the Soviet Regime

By Audrey Murray | July 24, 2018

What It Is to Love an Old Dog

What It Is to Love an Old Dog

His Walks Became Tentative; He Could No Longer Wag His Tail

By Dave Lucas | July 24, 2018

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