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Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood

Finding Literary Spaces Amid the Intensity of New Motherhood

Ellen O’Connell Whittet on Doireann Ní Ghríofa's A Ghost in the Throat

By Ellen O'Connell Whittet | August 26, 2021

Misunderstanding Thoreau: Reading Neurodiversity in Literature and in Life

Misunderstanding Thoreau: Reading Neurodiversity in Literature and in Life

Steve Edwards on Kathryn Schulz, Donald Hall, and the Things We Miss

By Steve Edwards | August 23, 2021

On the Lost “Lenny Bruce of Athens”

On the Lost “Lenny Bruce of Athens”

Mark Haskell Smith: In Defense of the Ancient Comedian Who Went After Aristotle

By Mark Haskell Smith | August 18, 2021

So You Want to Write a Novel About a Legendary Corn Geneticist...

So You Want to Write a Novel About a Legendary Corn Geneticist...

Rachel Pastan on What It Takes to Fictionalize a Life

By Rachel Pastan | August 12, 2021

How American Textbooks Misrepresent the Collective Struggle for Racial Justice

How American Textbooks Misrepresent the Collective Struggle for Racial Justice

On the Colonialism of Contemporary Education

By Leigh Patel | July 22, 2021

No Billionaires Detected: What It Was Like to Walk on the Moon in the Summer of 1971

No Billionaires Detected: What It Was Like to Walk on the Moon in the Summer of 1971

Looking Back at Apollo Missions 14 and 15, and the Crater that Eluded Mankind

By Earl Swift | July 21, 2021

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In Praise of Wildly Permissive Parenting

By Bex O'Brian | July 20, 2021

“Where You From?“ The Problem With Shortcuts in Writing Place in Fiction

By Brett Biebel | July 2, 2021

The Rise of the Crypto Writer? On What Literary NFTs Might Mean for the Book World

By Walker Caplan | June 25, 2021

The American Archetype of Rural Queerness Redefined

The American Archetype of Rural Queerness Redefined

Zee Francis Goes Deep Into the Subtext of Willa Cather's My Ántonia

By Zee Francis | February 28, 2020

Memory vs. History: On the Neverending Struggle to See Clearly Into the Past

Memory vs. History: On the Neverending Struggle to See Clearly Into the Past

Sarisha Kurup Tries to Map the Personal Over the Public

By Sarisha Kurup | February 12, 2020

Jane Austen, Gritty Educational Reformer of the Working Class

Jane Austen, Gritty Educational Reformer of the Working Class

Janine Barchas on How the Proliferation of Penny Editions
Brought Literature to the Masses

By Janine Barchas | February 4, 2020

Murat Çelikkan: Another Turkish Journalist in Prison for 'Unspecified Reasons'

Murat Çelikkan: Another Turkish Journalist in Prison for 'Unspecified Reasons'

A Day in the Life of a Jailed Writer and Human Rights Advocate

By Kaya Genç | January 31, 2020

Roxane Gay on the History of Women and the Oscars

Roxane Gay on the History of Women and the Oscars

“Clearly, some years, cinematic offerings are more
encouraging than others.”

By Roxane Gay | January 31, 2020

How We Pay Attention Changes the Very Shape of Our Brains

How We Pay Attention Changes the Very Shape of Our Brains

Stanislas Dehaene on the Neuroscience of Focused Learning

By Stanislas Dehaene | January 30, 2020

It Was Never About Economic Anxiety: On the Book That Foresaw the Rise of Trump

It Was Never About Economic Anxiety: On the Book That Foresaw the Rise of Trump

Samuel Freedman Rereads 1975's Blue-Collar Aristocrats

By Samuel Freedman | January 30, 2020

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