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Essays On Madness, Motherhood, and ‘King Lear’ Lauren D. Woods - 5.11.2023 Both children need my attention simultaneously, and like Lear’s kingdom, I’m unsure how to divide it. Lauren D. Woods - 5.11.2023
Essays The Literary Lives of Mid-Century Nuns Nick Ripatrazone - 5.8.2023 It's time we understand why the nuns of this era were drawn to writing and publishing poetry. Nick Ripatrazone - 5.8.2023
Essays Graphic Essays Dentistry and Doubt: On Writing About Teeth Jianan Qian - 5.4.2023 I await the the first great contribution to dental literature. Jianan Qian - 5.4.2023
Essays On Writing (and Rewriting) Illness Elizabeth Benedict - 4.27.2023 We’d read this story before. How could I make it fresh, original, and literary? Elizabeth Benedict - 4.27.2023
Essays Reviews Love Ruins Everything: On Claire Dederer’s ‘Monsters’ Sophia Stewart - 4.25.2023 To defend or disavow? The choice is yours, and it feels good to have a choice. Sophia Stewart - 4.25.2023
Essays Nora and the Jews Leslie Kendall Dye - 4.20.2023 Nora Ephron was Jewish but glamorous. Jewish and glamorous. Glamorous, in part, because she was Jewish. Leslie Kendall Dye - 4.20.2023
Essays The Haunted Writing Life of John Polidori Bryan VanDyke - 4.19.2023 Polidori is simultaneously unknown but influential, a failure but also the progenitor of an enduring literary trope: the vampire. Bryan VanDyke - 4.19.2023
Essays On AI and the Intrinsic Value of Writing Paul Jaskunas - 3.29.2023 At last, we can unshackle ourselves from the chore of writing toward extrinsic benefit. Paul Jaskunas - 3.29.2023
Essays To All the Novels I Never Published Bryan VanDyke - 3.21.2023 Any given piece of writing must be categorized: the ones you keep, and the ones you share. Bryan VanDyke - 3.21.2023
Essays The Casual Villainy of Greek Heroes Claire Heywood - 3.20.2023 Ancient heroism was not measured in good deeds and moral excellence. Claire Heywood - 3.20.2023
Essays The Novels Behind This Year’s Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar Noms Bill Morris - 3.9.2023 Three of this year's contenders are literary adaptions. How do they hold up to their source material? And which will win? Bill Morris - 3.9.2023