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October 9, 2014
5 Steps to Getting Over Your Ignorance of the Nobel Winner for Literature
October 2, 2014
Gorgeous Vintage Sketches of Tolstoy and Your Other Favorite Authors
September 24, 2014
F. Scott Fitzgerald Thought This Book Would Be the Best American Novel Of His Time
August 4, 2014
Knopf Book Designer Hates the Classic 'Great Gatsby' Cover
In an interview, Peter Mendulsund explains why some covers work and others fail
July 18, 2014
Virginia Woolf's Belated Obituary for Jane Austen
What would Austen have written about if she'd lived a longer life?
July 16, 2014
63 Years Ago, We Knew That 'The Catcher in the Rye' Was Insufferable and Overrated
July 14, 2014
Politics and Fiction
Morals are the husband and wife of literature
June 27, 2014
My Novel's Only Draft Was Kidnapped in Syria—and I Lived to Tell the Tale
June 27, 2014
J.K. Rowling's New Novel Reveals What She Really Thinks of the Publishing Industry
And it isn't pretty
June 20, 2014
The Stickers Any Loyal Murakami Reader Will Really Want
June 20, 2014
Why Did Borges Hate Soccer?
Mass culture was anathema to the Argentine writer
June 12, 2014
Why Has Literature Ignored Soccer?
June 9, 2014
In the Near Future, Only Very Wealthy Colleges Will Have English Departments
Adapt (not publish) or perish
May 22, 2014
Watch Arthur Conan Doyle Explain How He Invented Sherlock Holmes
May 22, 2014
The 2014 Summer Reading Guide
9 smart, entertaining new books to get you through the summer
May 15, 2014
Jonathan Safran Foer Is Putting Literature on Chipotle Cups
Here are 7 more authors whose writing should be plastered in public spaces
May 15, 2014
Read Emily Dickinson's Most Famous Poems, in Her Own Handwriting
April 22, 2014
The Most Bizarrely Sexual ‘Lolita’ Book Covers
February 26, 2014
The Real Reason Writers Love the Amtrak Residency
It's not just the free train ticket
February 14, 2014
Death to Cupid
Love is not "all you need." Far from it.

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