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Can Literature Heal the Scars of a Nation?

Can Literature Heal the Scars of a Nation?

Nayomi Munaweera Reports from Sri Lanka's Galle Literary Festival

By Nayomi Munaweera | February 22, 2016

Interview with a Bookstore:  Penn Book Center

Interview with a Bookstore: Penn Book Center

A Resource for Penn Students & Philadelphians Since 1962

By Interview with a Bookstore | February 22, 2016

How to Fictionalize the World's Greatest World Record Holder

How to Fictionalize the World's Greatest World Record Holder

In Which a Man Is Willingly Kicked 43 Times in the Groin

By Stephen Kelman | February 19, 2016

Fear and Loathing in NYC: Hunter S. Thompson Goes to Town

Fear and Loathing in NYC: Hunter S. Thompson Goes to Town

On the Anniversary of His Death, a Look at his life and crimes in the Big Apple

By Arvind Dilawar | February 19, 2016

30 Books in 30 Days: Katherine A. Powers on T. J. Stiles' <em>Custer's Trials</em>

30 Books in 30 Days: Katherine A. Powers on T. J. Stiles' Custer's Trials

COUNTING DOWN THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS FINALISTS

By Katherine A. Powers | February 19, 2016

How We Fictionalize Our Politics

How We Fictionalize Our Politics

On writing history and ideology into fictional lives

By Tobias Carroll | February 18, 2016

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The Women of Oscar Wilde

By Eleanor Fitzsimons | February 18, 2016

The Night That Sylvia Plath Met Ted Hughes

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When Art Cannot Console Us in Death

By Emily Harnett | February 17, 2016

More Was Lost

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Charles Simic on One of the Great Holocaust Novels of Yugoslavia

Charles Simic on One of the Great Holocaust Novels of Yugoslavia

Aleksandar Tišma: “All my novels are autobiographical.”

By Charles Simic | February 16, 2016

What Bill Cosby Taught Me About Sexual Violence and Flying

What Bill Cosby Taught Me About Sexual Violence and Flying

Kiese Laymon on Justice, Honesty, and American Violence

By Kiese Laymon | February 16, 2016

"Seriously, This Is Insane." And Other Debate Reactions.

Translating the GOP and Democratic Debates into Plain English

By Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf | February 16, 2016

The Staff Shelf: Lutyens & Rubinstein

The Staff Shelf: Lutyens & Rubinstein

What are booksellers reading?

By Interview with a Bookstore | February 16, 2016

Was Antonin Scalia the Most Literary Supreme Court Justice?

Was Antonin Scalia the Most Literary Supreme Court Justice?

The Intersection of Law and Literature on the Supreme Court, By the Numbers

By Ami A. Dodson and Scott Dodson | February 15, 2016

Interview with a Bookstore: Lutyens and Rubinstein

Interview with a Bookstore: Lutyens and Rubinstein

A London Literary Agency Opens its Own Bookshop

By Interview with a Bookstore | February 15, 2016

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