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Don Quixote
Six "reboot" novels to put on your radar.
A handful of books that bounce off the canon.
By
Brittany Allen
| September 25, 2025
The Tragedy and Comedy of
Don Quixote
How the Kidnapping of Miguel de Cervantes Shaped His Famous Novel
By
Ed Simon
| September 22, 2025
Actually, It’s Ok to Steal Your Ideas. Sort Of... (Or: Learning to Love My Literary Influences)
Bryan VanDyke Ponders Inspiration Versus Plagiarism, Ursula Le Guin, and AI Hallucinations
By
Bryan VanDyke
| May 19, 2025
"Don Quixote," Proto-Feminist Text: How Cervantes' Daughter Shaped His Novel
Martha Bátiz on Telenovelas, Writing Isabel de Saavedra's Story, and Women in the "Quixote"
By
Martha Bátiz
| May 19, 2025
Diverting Diversions: Mark Haber on Distractions, Literary Digressions, and the Possibilities of Fiction
Brian Castleberry in Conversation with the Author of “Lesser Ruins”
By
Brian Castleberry
| November 22, 2024
Mark Haber on the Beauty of Digression
"I want the words to erupt, the sentences to flower and the ideas to go places I hadn’t expected."
By
Mark Haber
| October 11, 2024
Best Reviewed
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By
Mark Haber
| November 21, 2023
If Lydia Davis Wasn't a Writer, She’d Devote Herself to Climate Activism
By
Lydia Davis
| October 2, 2023
Before They Were Cliches: On the Origins of 8 Worn Out Idioms
By
Erin McCarthy & the Team at Mental Floss
| June 30, 2023
Warm your bones by Ketanji Brown Jackson's dissents on the affirmative action ruling.
By
Janet Manley
| June 29, 2023
Ana Veciana-Suarez on Writing Through Difficult Things and Re-imagining Cervantes
This Week on
The Literary Life
with Mitchell Kaplan
By
The Literary Life
| May 26, 2023
Why Eccentrics Find a Natural Home in Fiction
Carlos Fonseca Finds a New Language in the World of the Outcast
By
Carlos Fonseca Suarez
| May 25, 2023
What
Don Quixote
Reveals About an Empire At Its Peak
Giles Tremlett on the Baroque Decadence of Spain’s Golden Age
By
Giles Tremlett
| September 27, 2022
A decades-old Sanskrit translation of
Don Quixote
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By
Emily Temple
| July 6, 2022
Bud Smith on the Quintessential “Road Trip” Novel
The Author of
Teenager
Recommends Tove Jansson, Tim O'Brien, and More
By
Bud Smith
| May 10, 2022
How Artists Navigate the Interplay of Authority and Freedom
Jed Perl on the Creative Life
By
Jed Perl
| January 12, 2022
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Christina Henry
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