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Seeking Redemption Behind Bars

Seeking Redemption Behind Bars

On the History of Faith-Based Rehabilitation Alternatives

By Tanya Erzen | March 24, 2017

Reading Across America: How to Host a Literary Event

Reading Across America: How to Host a Literary Event

Jen Michalski on Learning What It Takes Pull Off a Reading

By Jen Michalski | March 23, 2017

Introducing the 2017 Whiting Award Winners

Introducing the 2017 Whiting Award Winners

10 Young Writers Who Just Got $50k

By Emily Temple | March 22, 2017

Art Spiegelman: If It Walks Like a Fascist…

Art Spiegelman: If It Walks Like a Fascist…

On Nazis, Despair, and the Genius of Si Lewen

By Anthony Audi | March 22, 2017

Camille Paglia on the Iconic Cover of Patti Smith's <em>Horses</em>

Camille Paglia on the Iconic Cover of Patti Smith's Horses

"The Mapplethorpe photo synthesizes my passions and world-view"

By Camille Paglia | March 22, 2017

How a Dictionary Got Into the Marriage Equality Debate

How a Dictionary Got Into the Marriage Equality Debate

And Why Lexicography­ Matters—Sometimes Too Much

By Kory Stamper | March 22, 2017

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What My Grandfather's Displacement Taught Me About the Refugee Crisis

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Presidential Politics As Reality TV and Realist Fiction

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By Marina Benjamin | March 21, 2017

How a Husband's Loving Biography Ruined His Wife's Reputation

How a Husband's Loving Biography Ruined His Wife's Reputation

On William Godwin's Scrupulously Honest Life of Mary Wollstonecraft

By Richard Holmes | March 21, 2017

Take Heart: Shakespeare's Drafts Were Pretty Damn Rough

Take Heart: Shakespeare's Drafts Were Pretty Damn Rough

On the Rewrites, Random Additions, and Many Changes to the Bard's Plays

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Zora Neale Hurston: The College Years

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From a New Graphic Biography of a Great American Writer

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Just How Partisan is the Supreme Court?

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The Wild, Weird Criminal Side of Florida

The Wild, Weird Criminal Side of Florida

Dwyer Murphy Finds Blood, Guns, and Corpses at SleuthFest 2017

By Dwyer Murphy | March 20, 2017

Writing on an Island at the End of the World

Writing on an Island at the End of the World

Nell Stevens Chases Her Novel to Bleaker Island

By Nell Stevens | March 17, 2017

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