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Meet Elinor Glyn, “Shocker of Grandmothers” and Founder of the Modern Sex Novel

Meet Elinor Glyn, “Shocker of Grandmothers” and Founder of the Modern Sex Novel

On the Author of the Most Widely Denounced Novel Published Before World War I

By Hilary A. Hallett | July 26, 2022

Growing Up Gay on the Oil-Rich Prairie of North Dakota

Growing Up Gay on the Oil-Rich Prairie of North Dakota

Taylor Brorby: “The story of North Dakota is then the story of self-destruction.”

By Taylor Brorby | June 9, 2022

“Song” (from <em>One Thousand and One Nights</em>)

“Song” (from One Thousand and One Nights)

A Poem Translated by Yasmine Seale

By Yasmine Seale | November 16, 2021

On the Subversive Power of Gossip

On the Subversive Power of Gossip

Maria Tatar Considers the Deep Cultural Work of Chatter

By Maria Tatar | September 15, 2021

Finding Horror (and Art) in the Gray Areas of Identity

Finding Horror (and Art) in the Gray Areas of Identity

Virginia Feito on the Terrifying Power of Identity Crises in Fiction, from Shirley Jackson to Alfred Hitchcock

By Virginia Feito | August 10, 2021

The Heteronymous Identities of Fernando Pessoa

The Heteronymous Identities of Fernando Pessoa

Richard Zenith on the Many Literary Lives of the Genius of Lisbon

By Richard Zenith | July 22, 2021

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How Black Writers Capture the Comedy and Dark Absurdity of Life in America

By Keenan Norris | June 22, 2021

On Juneteenth and the Struggle to Commemorate and Make Sense of Protest and Rebellion

By Jelani Cobb | June 18, 2021

How Stories Change When They Move From Page to Voice

By Laura Lindstedt, translated by David Hackston | June 14, 2021

Dylanalia, Deep Data, and More: New and Noteworthy Nonfiction This May

Dylanalia, Deep Data, and More: New and Noteworthy Nonfiction This May

Featuring New Books by Olivia Laing, Sarah Schulman, and Annette Gordon-Reed

By Literary Hub | May 5, 2021

One of the Most Important American Documents You’ve Never Heard Of

One of the Most Important American Documents You’ve Never Heard Of

Colonial Lessons in Civility from the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee

By Nicole Eustace | April 29, 2021

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: <em>The Dead Are Arising</em> by Les Payne and Tamara Payne

This Year’s NBCC Award Finalists: The Dead Are Arising by Les Payne and Tamara Payne

Elizabeth Taylor on One of the Finalists for Biography

By Elizabeth Taylor | March 16, 2021

How the Specter of Islam Fueled European Colonization in the Americas

How the Specter of Islam Fueled European Colonization in the Americas

Alan Mikhail Considers the Historical Ripples of Islamophobia

By Alan Mikhail | December 17, 2020

Who Exactly Was Rilke's Young Poet Correspondent?

Who Exactly Was Rilke's Young Poet Correspondent?

Damion Searls on Translating Letters to a Young Poet
(and the Young Poet's Letters)

By Damion Searls | November 30, 2020

On the Fight for Black Voting Rights at the Turn of the 20th-Century

On the Fight for Black Voting Rights at the Turn of the 20th-Century

From Kerri K. Greenidge's Cundill-Prize Nominated Black Radical

By Kerri K Greenidge | October 14, 2020

Down Through the Faulkner Bloodline, Pride and Racial Guilt Commingled

Down Through the Faulkner Bloodline, Pride and Racial Guilt Commingled

Michael Gorra on William Faulkner's Great-Grandfather

By Michael Gorra | August 24, 2020

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