When an Apparition of Virginia Woolf Interrupts Your Writing Process

When an Apparition of Virginia Woolf Interrupts Your Writing Process

Rachel Eisendrath: “She had taken hold of my manuscript. And she was looking down at it.”

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Why Did I Wait So Long to Read Jane Austen?

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Joshua Raff on His Pandemic Jane-Quest

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On the Care and Keeping of Mythological Apparitions

On the Care and Keeping of Mythological Apparitions

Sean Flynn Sets Out to Purchase Some Peafowl

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How Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger’s Relationship Can Inform Our Current Crises

How Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger’s Relationship Can Inform Our Current Crises

Joshua Corey Investigates a “Poetics of the World” in His Latest Book

By Joshua Corey | May 13, 2021

Tayari Jones on <em>The Women of Brewster Place</em>, Nearly Forty Years Later

Tayari Jones on The Women of Brewster Place, Nearly Forty Years Later

Reconsidering a Watershed Moment
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Beyond Good and Evil: Reconsidering the Toxic Myth of the “Transgressive” Artist

Beyond Good and Evil: Reconsidering the Toxic Myth of the “Transgressive” Artist

Martha C. Nussbaum on What We Forgive in the Name of Art

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Trevor Shikaze is the winner of n+1's inaugural Anthony Veasna So Prize.

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