How Japan’s Wind Phone Became a Bridge Between Life and Death

How Japan’s Wind Phone Became a Bridge Between Life and Death

Laura Imai Messina on Mourning, Resilience, and the Married Couple Who Changed Her Life

By Laura Imai Messina | March 17, 2021

How a Twitter Hashtag Changed the Rules of War

How a Twitter Hashtag Changed the Rules of War

Joe Parkinson and Drew Hinshaw in Conversation
with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | March 17, 2021

Why Do Readers Have Such Strong Feelings About Nabokov?

Why Do Readers Have Such Strong Feelings About Nabokov?

Robert Alter on Nabokov’s Literary Invention

By Robert Alter | March 17, 2021

Yamen Manai on Waiting for the Perfect Allegory

Yamen Manai on Waiting for the Perfect Allegory

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | March 17, 2021

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>Unfinished Business</em> by Vivian Gornick

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: Unfinished Business by Vivian Gornick

Carlin Romano on One of the Finalists for Criticism

By Carlin Romano | March 17, 2021

Listen to a new song inspired by Viet Thanh Nguyen's <em>The Sympathizer</em>.

Listen to a new song inspired by Viet Thanh Nguyen's The Sympathizer.

By Emily Temple | March 16, 2021

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Tom Hiddleston, the dark prince of literary adaptations, is back on his bullshit.

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Living in the “In-Between Spaces” of Elizabeth Bishop’s Life-Changing Poetry

Living in the “In-Between Spaces” of Elizabeth Bishop’s Life-Changing Poetry

Patricia Dwyer Rereads “In the Village” and “In the Waiting Room”

By Patricia M. Dwyer | March 16, 2021

How Would the Publishing World Respond to <em>Lolita</em> Today?

How Would the Publishing World Respond to Lolita Today?

Jenny Minton Quigley on the Novel Her Father Published

By Jenny Minton Quigley | March 16, 2021

Judgement Day at America’s First Blockbuster Murder Trial

Judgement Day at America’s First Blockbuster Murder Trial

Tobey Pearl on the Trial of the Plymouth Colonists Who Murdered
an Indigenous Man

By Tobey Pearl | March 16, 2021

Charles Darwin’s Great Uncertainty: Decoding the Age of Our Planet

Charles Darwin’s Great Uncertainty: Decoding the Age of Our Planet

Paul Sen on the Unlikely Relationship Between Thermodynamics
and Evolution

By Paul Sen | March 16, 2021

On the Language of Revolution Ten Years After the Arab Spring

On the Language of Revolution Ten Years After the Arab Spring

Layla AlAmmar Considers Literature That Seeks to Represent the Unrepresentable

By Layla AlAmmar | March 16, 2021

In the Mississippi Woods Where the Southern Myth Ends

In the Mississippi Woods Where the Southern Myth Ends

W. Ralph Eubanks Gets Deep Into the Piney Woods,
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By W. Ralph Eubanks | March 16, 2021

Women Who Fly: Talking to Nona Hendryx About Afrofuturist Histories

Women Who Fly: Talking to Nona Hendryx About Afrofuturist Histories

Emily Lordi on Musical Visionaries

By Emily Lordi | March 16, 2021

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