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Am I the Literary Asshole for Thinking All Writers Are Assholes?
Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior
“Is Canada a Viable Country?” Yes, According to American Literature
Brooke Clark Finds Visions of the Great White North in the Eyes of American Writers
5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week
“This is the world that Gatsby warns of: one with no solidarity, just avarice and pleasure-seeking.”
Players Upon the Page: How Directing Plays Taught Nicole Galland to Write Novels
The Author of “Boy” on Scripting, Literary Dress Rehearsals, Story Props, and More
Not One Vietnam, But Many: Vinh Nguyen on Capturing a Multifarious Country in Memoir
The Author of “The Migrant Rain Falls in Reverse” Explores Memory, Audience, and Floating Signifiers
The Annotated Nightstand: What Ariana Reines Is Reading Now, and Next
Featuring Orlando Reade, Ishmael Reed, Georges Bataille, and Others
Vauhini Vara on Searches and Searches
In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction
On the Real-Life Story of Deep-Cover Russian Spies Living As American Families
Shaun Walker on the Past and Present of a Classic Cold War Espionage Operation
“A Mystery Novel Like No Other Before.” On Josephine Tey’s The Daughter of Time
Sarah Weinman in Praise of an Innovative and Timeless Work of Detective Fiction
What a 19th-Century Photograph Reveals About Power, Privilege and Violence in the American West
Martha A. Sandweiss Unearths the Hidden History Behind a Moment of Westward Expansion Preserved for Posterity
Religion Meets the Swinging Sixties: How Western Christianity Confronted a Decade of Change
Diarmaid MacCulloch Explores the Relationship Between Ecclesiastical Tradition and New Morality
Ishion Hutchinson on Les Murray’s Sensory, Mozartian Poems
The Author of “Fugitive Tilt” Explores the Australian Poet’s Evocations of Nature
The Future Will be Translated:
A Manifesto in Three Lies
Chloe Garcia Roberts on the Reasons for Hope in the Field of Translation
“A Source of Amyuzmint.” On the Use of Bad Spelling in Early American Comedy
Gabe Henry Considers the Creative Intentions and Class-Based Undertones Behind Phonetic Writing
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