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A Painfully Close Reading of That Terrible Trump Victory Poem

An enormous burning mountain of crap

 
By Emily Temple  September 28, 2016
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How Peyton Place Comforted Me as a Closeted Teenager

By Nathan Smith  September 26, 2016
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Edith Wharton’s Indictment of Gilded Age Inequality: Still Relevant

By Colette Shade  September 22, 2016
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Oedipa Maas: Our Guide to Contemporary Paranoia

By Nick Ripatrazone  July 7, 2016
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The Man in the Macintosh: One of Literature’s Great Mysteries

By Tyler Malone  June 16, 2016
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On Don DeLillo’s Deep Italian-American Roots

By Nick Ripatrazone  May 3, 2016
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How Mapping Alice Munro’s Stories Helped Me As a Writer

By Elizabeth Poliner  April 27, 2016
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How Sylvia Plath’s Rare Honors Thesis Helped Me Understand My Divided Self

By Nathan Smith  April 26, 2016
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If Jane Eyre Came Out Today Would It Be Marketed As Genre?

By Lyndsay Faye  April 21, 2016
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What Borges Learned from Cervantes

By Ilan Stavans and William P. Childers   April 20, 2016
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Sex, Feminism, and the Lost Genius of Violette Leduc

By Tom Roberge  July 17, 2015
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Chekhov: A Writer for Grown Ups

By Richard Ford  July 15, 2015
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On the Surreal Genius of Kelly Link

By Laura I. Miller  July 2, 2015
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Falconry as therapy

By Helen Macdonald  April 24, 2015
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What He left us

By Danez Smith  April 20, 2015
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The Nearest Thing To Life

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