Literature

Sarah Rose Etter loves to write women with surreal maladies. The Book of X, which won the Shirley Jackson Award...

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How J. Robert Oppenheimer used one of his favorite books, the Bhagavad Gita, to make the most consequential decision of the 20th...

In a work of fiction, place is a character, but unlike mortal characters and their short lives, places are seemingly...

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On this edition of The Literary Life, what makes for a happy life, a fulfilling life? Robert Waldinger and Mark...

Open Throat wields its language both as a salve and scalpel. The novel follows its unforgettable narrator—a queer, lonely mountain...

There is some diversity on the list, however, with authors like James Baldwin, Gabriel García Márquez, Toni Morrison, Jhumpa Lahiri,...

July 13, 2023, 12:46pm Another day, another article about how the unstoppable forces of wokeness are coming for your kids....

The age of the boyfriend has ended. Give yours away. Donate him to charity or, if he doesn’t have too...

“Does it happen in other people’s lives that a single event influences all subsequent time?” So ponders the protagonist of...

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July 12, 2023, 12:13pm PBS is at it again! Premiering on July 18th, Southern Storytellers is a three-episode docuseries aimed to “reveal...

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Christine begins to fixate on certain turning points in her own history—what might have happened otherwise, if she’d made different...

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