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Brandon Taylor: Fear is a Prolonged Argument with the World

Brandon Taylor: Fear is a Prolonged Argument with the World

On What it is to Grow Up a Child, Afraid

By Brandon Taylor | September 13, 2019

What Are We Saying When We Grant a Movie 'Universal' Status?

What Are We Saying When We Grant a Movie 'Universal' Status?

The Farewell">Simon Han on the "Good Lie" of The Farewell

By Simon Han | September 13, 2019

The Inspired Vengeance of Mythic Icelandic Women

The Inspired Vengeance of Mythic Icelandic Women

Kassandra Montag on Learning to Write Blunt, Unabashed Characters

By Kassandra Montag | September 13, 2019

Dead Men of Leisure on Their Love of Fishing

Dead Men of Leisure on Their Love of Fishing

the disappointment vexeth me to this very day."">"I felt a great fish at the end of my line but it dropt in, and
the disappointment vexeth me to this very day."

By Literary Hub | September 13, 2019

The longlist nominees for the 2019 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction are. . .

The longlist nominees for the 2019 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction are. . .

By Aaron Robertson | September 12, 2019

Watch the creepy first trailer for <em>Dublin Murders</em>, based on Tana French's novels.

Watch the creepy first trailer for Dublin Murders, based on Tana French's novels.

By Dan Sheehan | September 12, 2019

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Edmund White will receive a lifetime achievement award from the National Book Foundation.

By Eleni Theodoropoulos | September 12, 2019

A Brief History of Mostly Terrible Campaign Biographies

By Jaime Fuller | September 12, 2019

A Legendary Publishing House's Most Infamous Rejection Letters

By Toby Faber | September 12, 2019

When D.H. Lawrence's

When D.H. Lawrence's "Unlovely" Paintings Were Confiscated by Scotland Yard

NSFW (If You're a Cop)

By Emily Temple | September 12, 2019

The Eerily Prescient Lessons of<br> <em>Darkness at Noon</em>

The Eerily Prescient Lessons of
Darkness at Noon

Michael Scammell on the Eternal Totalitarian Truths of Arthur Koestler's Classic

By Michael Scammell | September 12, 2019

How Can You Know What Your Dog <br>is Really Feeling?

How Can You Know What Your Dog
is Really Feeling?

Depressed, Confused, Excited, Surprised... and We're Not Listening

By Alexandra Horowitz | September 12, 2019

The Woman Who Beat the Nazis in Europe's Deadliest Horse Race

The Woman Who Beat the Nazis in Europe's Deadliest Horse Race

Lata Brandisová Probably Would Have Also Punched Them

By Richard Askwith | September 12, 2019

Tangled Histories of Family and Empire, England and Jamaica

Tangled Histories of Family and Empire, England and Jamaica

Hazel V. Carby on Generations of a Black British Family

By Hazel V. Carby | September 12, 2019

On the Iconic Iraqi Writer Who Modernized Poetic Forms

On the Iconic Iraqi Writer Who Modernized Poetic Forms

Fadhil al-Azzawi, a Countercultural Literary Force

By Farouk Yousif | September 12, 2019

<em>Oxford American</em>, one of the great lit mags of the American South, gets a facelift.

Oxford American, one of the great lit mags of the American South, gets a facelift.

By Aaron Robertson | September 11, 2019

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