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History and criticism

Purple prose

by Pearl London,

Wow, Fiction Works!

By Colson Whitehead, from “James Root on How to Read,” part of a talk delivered last July at the Tin House Writers Workshop, in Portland, Oregon. Sag Harbor, Whitehead’s fourth…

Recantorium

by Charles Bernstein,

For the prevention of speed

by James Sitar,

Radiant Poison

by Vivian Gornick,

Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and the end of the Jew as metaphor

The mental kitchen

by W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden,Translated by Richard Howard,

A lie that tells the truth

by Joel Agee,

Memoir and the art of memory

There is no east

by Christopher de Bellaigue,

Reading Orhan Pamuk

Literary entrails

by Cynthia Ozick,

The boys in the alley, the disappearing readers, and the novel's ghostly twin

The mirror of life

by Jonathan Bate,

How Shakespeare conquered the world

The influence of anxiety

by Frances FitzGerald,

What's the problem with young adult novels?