Poverty, Anxiety, and Gender in Scottish Working-Class Literature

Poverty, Anxiety, and Gender in Scottish Working-Class Literature

Douglas Stuart Offers a Reading List in Response to
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There is No Specific Noun for a Parent Who Has Lost a Child

There is No Specific Noun for a Parent Who Has Lost a Child

Denise Riley on the Temporal Dislocation of Profound Loss

By Denise Riley | February 10, 2020

The Maggie Nelson Test for Lesbian Dating Success

The Maggie Nelson Test for Lesbian Dating Success

Jenn Shapland on The Argonauts and Building a Life

By Jenn Shapland | February 10, 2020

We Didn't Always Pair Poets to Presidents: How Robert Frost Ended Up at JFK's Inauguration

We Didn't Always Pair Poets to Presidents: How Robert Frost Ended Up at JFK's Inauguration

When Poetry Met Power in January, 1961

By John Burnside | February 10, 2020

On the Storylines That Kept Early Humans Alive

On the Storylines That Kept Early Humans Alive

Gaia Vince Considers the Adaptive Urgency of Storytelling

By Gaia Vince | February 10, 2020

Nuns Can Party, Too: On Defying Expectations of Piety

Nuns Can Party, Too: On Defying Expectations of Piety

Alena Dillon Confronts the Stereotypes of Life in the Holy Orders

By Alena Dillon | February 10, 2020

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Richard Wagamese on Anti-Native Racism and Deciding to Fight Back

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Finding Liberation in the Early Years of the Women's Royal Naval Service

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"I am crazy on the sea."

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The Investigation Truman Capote Started, But Never Finished, on Russian Socialites

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