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A Report from the First-Ever Smithsonian Asian American Literature Festival

A Report from the First-Ever Smithsonian Asian American Literature Festival

Than They Had in a Very Long Time."">"I Felt Like People Were Talking to Me More Directly
Than They Had in a Very Long Time."

By Kyle Lucia Wu | July 31, 2017

Trump's Shameful, Cruel Ban on People Like Me

Trump's Shameful, Cruel Ban on People Like Me

His Presidency Can Never Be Normalized, But My Shame Has Been

By Gabrielle Bellot | July 28, 2017

OJ Simpson is One-Man Book Industry

OJ Simpson is One-Man Book Industry

Everyone Who Knows the Man Seems to Think They Have a Book in Them

By Dwyer Murphy | July 28, 2017

How Writing Let Me Take Control of My Own Story

How Writing Let Me Take Control of My Own Story

On the Joy and Struggle of Creation

By Jennie Melamed | July 28, 2017

Is It Still Possible to Satirize America?

Is It Still Possible to Satirize America?

When "Absurdist, Futuristic Satire" Becomes Reality

By Sean Gandert | July 28, 2017

Tolkien and Salinger: Basically Twins

Tolkien and Salinger: Basically Twins

And Other Literary Film and TV News from this Week

By Emily Temple | July 28, 2017

Best Reviewed
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  • Evil Genius

Mary Gaitskill's Classic Essay on John McCain

By Mary Gaitskill | July 28, 2017

Svetlana Alexievich on Why She Does What She Does

By Svetlana Alexievich | July 27, 2017

We Want Our Refugees and Exiles to Be Victims

By Ece Temelkuran | July 27, 2017

How the Witchcraft of Clarice Lispector Saved My Life

How the Witchcraft of Clarice Lispector Saved My Life

Veronica Esposito on the Books That Come Along to Rescue Us

By Veronica Esposito | July 25, 2017

The Worst White House Kitchen in History

The Worst White House Kitchen in History

The Roosevelts Went Well Beyond Ketchup with Steak

By Laura Shapiro | July 25, 2017

How Patti Smith Brought Rock 'n' Roll to New York Poetry

How Patti Smith Brought Rock 'n' Roll to New York Poetry

The Arty Rimbaud in a Spotlight

By Daniel Kane | July 24, 2017

Mothers Who Leave Their Children

Mothers Who Leave Their Children

Melissa Chadburn on the Pain of Motherless Nights

By Melissa Chadburn | July 24, 2017

The Invention of the Rural Hipster

The Invention of the Rural Hipster

On the Gaskins, Going Back to the Land, and Old Time American Wisdom

By John T. Edge | July 24, 2017

Telling Their Own Stories: On Black Women's Leadership Memoirs

Telling Their Own Stories: On Black Women's Leadership Memoirs

"This is the Story of a Colored Woman Living in a White World"

By Brittney C. Cooper | July 24, 2017

9 Classic Country Songs and the Books They Pair With

9 Classic Country Songs and the Books They Pair With

From Dolly Parton to Doestoevsky

By Sarah Creech | July 21, 2017

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