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May 2, 2016
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Jo Livingstone
How Literature Became Word Perfect
Before the word processor, perfect copy was the domain of the typist—not the literary genius.
March 30, 2016
Joseph Freeman
Why Are There So Many Writers in Myanmar’s New Government?
President Htin Kyaw is hardly the only bookish official in the country.
March 25, 2016
Matthew Pratt Guterl
The Irish Rebellion That Resonated in Harlem
Black intellectuals expressed solidarity with the Easter Rising revolt against British rule.
January 25, 2016
Mikaela Lefrak
Virginia Woolf was not impressed by the movies.
January 6, 2016
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Where’s Literature’s Class Diversity?
For writers, socioeconomic class is still hard to talk about.
December 21, 2015
Mikaela Lefrak
May we all have as good of friends as F. Scott Fitzgerald did.
December 16, 2015
Mikaela Lefrak
E.M. Forster geeked out over Jane Austen, just like us.
December 2, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Don't Let Men Attack Pumpkin Spice Literature
Marlon James's recent comments on white women as literary gatekeepers are misguided.
October 7, 2015
Alex Shephard
Who Will Win the Nobel Prize for Literature?
If Bob Dylan wins, I will eat my copy of "Blood on the Tracks"
September 9, 2015
Michelle Dean
Drunk Confessions
Women and the clichés of the literary drunkard.
June 16, 2015
Elizabeth Bruenig
The Progressive Case for Teaching Shakespeare
June 2, 2015
Alyssa Reeder
The Strange Second Act of the Man Who Brought Smut to American Literature
May 20, 2015
M. Lynx Qualey
The Man Booker International Prize Goes Global but Lands Back Home
May 15, 2015
Jeet Heer
Jonathan Franzen's “Bad” Sex Writing Isn't His Fault
May 14, 2015
Jerry A. Coyne
Life Is "Triggering." The Best Literature Should Be, Too.
A few Columbia students want warnings on Ovid. What's next? Here's what Literature Fascism would look like.
May 10, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
The Risks of Siding With French Secularism
The National Front's defense of 'Charlie Hebdo' should make the mag's progressive American defenders wary
April 30, 2015
Elaine Teng
'Far from the Madding Crowd' Tries Too Hard to Make Its Victorian Heroine a 21st-Century Feminist
April 8, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
VIDA Wants Writers to Create "Important" Female Characters. Bad Advice.
January 22, 2015
Shahan Mufti
What Gandhi Understood About Inflammatory Depictions of Muhammad
January 15, 2015
David M. Friedman
Henry James Thought Oscar Wilde Was a Talentless Self-Promoter. Here's What Happened When The Two Met.
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