The Gettysburg Review

The Power of Passivity: On Choosing to Do Nothing

Maura Lammers Considers the Role of Inaction in Fiction and in Real Life

 
By Maura Lammers  December 13, 2023
Daily Fiction

“House Fire”

By Lit Hub Excerpts  August 21, 2023
Climate Change

On Apocalypse Art, Climate Divination, and The Blob

By Molly Gallentine  March 17, 2022
Gender

On the Many Forms Our Dissent Can Take

By Jen Silverman  May 17, 2021
Daily Fiction

“Taking the Blacksmith”

By Lit Hub Excerpts  November 10, 2020
Criticism

Karl Ove Knausgaard’s Feats of Shame and Openness

By Kim Adrian  September 6, 2019
Short story writers

“Frank at the End of the World”

By Lit Hub Excerpts  May 9, 2018
Short story writers

The Cat

By Lit Hub Excerpts  January 22, 2018
Deep Dive

My Own Personal Herakles

By Renée Branum  September 29, 2017

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