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The Timeless, Timely Folk Novel: On Writing Fiction Influenced by Folk Songs

The Timeless, Timely Folk Novel: On Writing Fiction Influenced by Folk Songs

Seán Hewitt Explores Folk's Constant, Changing Repository of Stories

By Seán Hewitt | April 15, 2025

Lit From the Chocolate City: Ten Washington D.C Books That Aren’t About Politicians

Lit From the Chocolate City: Ten Washington D.C Books That Aren’t About Politicians

Charlotte Taylor Fryar Recommends Edward P. Jones, Dinaw Mengestu, Morowa Yejidé, and More

By Charlotte Taylor Fryar | February 26, 2025

Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures

Dreams of Liberation: Alex Zamalin on the Political Power of American Countercultures

The Author of “Counterculture” in Conversation with Aaron Robertson

By Aaron Robertson | February 19, 2025

10 literary classics that didn't sell.

10 literary classics that didn't sell.

By Emily Temple | October 4, 2022

On the Life and Under-Recognized Work of Margery Latimer, Visionary Modernist Writer

On the Life and Under-Recognized Work of Margery Latimer, Visionary Modernist Writer

Joy Castro Revisits an Intellectual Ahead of Her Time

By Joy Castro | September 2, 2021

Reading Feminist Futurism in the Age of the “Female” Virtual Assistant

Reading Feminist Futurism in the Age of the “Female” Virtual Assistant

Images of Empowerment in the Literary Cyborg

By Samantha Edmonds | January 3, 2019

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