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When Do Unspoken Social Rules Become Fashion Laws?

When Do Unspoken Social Rules Become Fashion Laws?

Richard Thompson Ford on the Time a Top Hat Scandalized London

By Richard Thompson Ford | February 10, 2021

Rooms of Their Own: Where Some of the Best Women Writers Created Art

Rooms of Their Own: Where Some of the Best Women Writers Created Art

Lauren Marino on the Spaces of Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, and Others

By Lauren Marino | February 4, 2021

The Unmade Edges of Language: On the Poetry of Alvin Feinman

The Unmade Edges of Language: On the Poetry of Alvin Feinman

James Geary: "Alvin’s poems exist at the extreme reaches of speech, the far outskirts of thought."

By James Geary | January 25, 2021

Defiant Style: A Story of African Women, in Photographs and Fashion

Defiant Style: A Story of African Women, in Photographs and Fashion

Catherine E. McKinley on the Sewing Machine as a Tool of Empowerment

By Catherine E. McKinley | January 20, 2021

25 Essential Notes on Craft from Matthew Salesses

25 Essential Notes on Craft from Matthew Salesses

Rethinking Popular Assumptions of Fiction Writing

By Matthew Salesses | January 19, 2021

People Still Ask: How Do Writers Get Their Ideas?

People Still Ask: How Do Writers Get Their Ideas?

Lore Segal on Failing and Failing Again

By Lore Segal | January 6, 2021

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What Happened in the 80s? On the Rise of Literary Theory in American Academia

By H. Aram Veeser and Jane Gallop | December 23, 2020

How Come We Don't Have a Philosophy of Wigs?

By Luigi Amara | November 24, 2020

Down the Wormhole with Jonathan Lethem: On Male Complicity and Publishing in a Pandemic

By Brian Gresko | November 9, 2020

Jerald Walker Gets a Bad Haircut... and It All Goes Downhill From There

Jerald Walker Gets a Bad Haircut... and It All Goes Downhill From There

Whatever You Do, Stay Away From the "Kaleshion"

By Jerald Walker | November 5, 2020

Inside the Spare and Extravagant Homes of Six Iconic Writers

Inside the Spare and Extravagant Homes of Six Iconic Writers

The Architectural Tastes of Melville, Wharton and More

By Sam Lubell | October 28, 2020

Recreating Scenes From the 20th Century's Most Iconic Bedtime Story

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Kate Bernheimer Reflects on Margaret Wise Brown's Goodnight Moon

By Kate Bernheimer | October 27, 2020

The Center of the Universe? Capturing New York City 90s Nightlife

The Center of the Universe? Capturing New York City 90s Nightlife

Gabriel Sanchez on Archiving a Party That Never Ended

By Gabriel Sanchez | October 20, 2020

How Does the Great Dolly Parton Write a Song?

How Does the Great Dolly Parton Write a Song?

Lydia R. Hamessley on Memory, Musical Storytelling, and "Coat of Many Colors"

By Lydia R. Hamessley | October 14, 2020

Take a virtual tour through Ursula K. Le Guin's gorgeous California home.

Take a virtual tour through Ursula K. Le Guin's gorgeous California home.

By Aaron Robertson | September 3, 2020

Do We Have Victorians to Thank for Consumerism?

Do We Have Victorians to Thank for Consumerism?

Jennifer Howard on How We Came to Strive for Material Excess

By Jennifer Howard | September 2, 2020

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