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October 28, 2015
Truman Capote
“The Moth in the Flame”: An Unpublished Short Story by Truman Capote
Written for his high school literary magazine, this haunting story is now published for the first time.
October 6, 2015
Hannah Tennant-Moore
Mary Gaitskill Makes the Superficial Bearable
Her new novel “The Mare” finds hidden truths in ordinary moments
July 27, 2015
Benjamin Anastas
A Passion for the Void
Understanding Clarice Lispector’s strange and surreal fiction
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
March 30, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Should Young Writers "Wait Their Turn"? This Famous Old Writer Thinks So.
October 9, 2014
Hillary Kelly
5 Steps to Getting Over Your Ignorance of the Nobel Winner for Literature
September 6, 2014
Ian McEwan
The Heartwrenching Court Cases That Inspired My New Novel
August 26, 2014
Juliet Lapidos
When Are Metafictional Games a Mask For Laziness?
The complex style of Ben Lerner
August 8, 2014
Philip Maughan
Geoff Dyer: “There Should Be an Annual Festival Devoted to Me”
April 12, 2014
Cynthia Ozick
How Kafka Actually Lived
He did not transcend his Jewishness, no matter what Updike claimed
November 5, 2013
Meredith Turits
Therapy: The Cause of, and Solution to, All of Writers' Problems
October 13, 2013
Christopher Benfey
Willa Cather’s Correspondence Reveals Something New
The rage of a great American novelist
October 8, 2013
Hillary Kelly
Dave Eggers's Overwrought Paranoia
July 8, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
And the Award for Most Insufferable Author Goes to...
May 28, 2013
Katherine Mansfield
From the Stacks: “Six Years After”
March 28, 1923
May 17, 2013
Peter Green
The Origins of Paul Scott's Vast Masterpiece
The epic of colonial India
May 9, 2013
Maureen Corrigan
On Screen, 'Gatsby' is Beautiful—and Damned Boring
Five films later, Hollywood still doesn't get Fitzgerald's novel
February 15, 2013
Ian McEwan
When I Stop Believing in Fiction
February 8, 2013
Sam Lipsyte
How to Write About Sex
The awkward art of the smitten word

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