Tag: literature

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Festival of Fear

Rafia Zakaria

October 22, 2021

The Jaipur Literature Festival serves as marketing for an increasingly repressive India.

The Novel According to Bezos

Megan Marz

October 21, 2021

Has Amazon changed literature?

The Story of the Lost Novel

Madeleine Crum

September 13, 2021

Reading the book Simone de Beauvoir decided not to publish.

Those Who Can Do

Dennis M. Hogan

September 02, 2021

Rewriting the history of literary studies, from inside the classroom

Unsolved Mysteries

Sophie Atkinson

August 30, 2021

In Passing Time, Michel Butor turns the detective novel inside out.

Singing in Dark Times

Declan Ryan

August 23, 2021

Michael Robbins, between hope and despair.

Speeding Away from Zion

Ross Barkan

August 05, 2021

What is the American Jew?

Writer on the Storm

Andrew Schenker

July 14, 2021

George R. Stewart’s ecofictions forecasted today’s calamities.

Is it Obscene?

Rafia Zakaria

June 18, 2021

On fame, criticism, and disputes about transphobia.

I Put a Spell on You

Hannah Gold

June 17, 2021

The witch trial as an act of too-close reading

Realism’s Revenge

John Merrick

June 07, 2021

Do we have more to learn from the nineteenth-century novel?

The Eye of the Beholder

Shivani Radhakrishnan

May 27, 2021

Encounters with art in Second Place and beyond