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Feel this Now: Jennifer Doyle's "Hold It Against Me"The Drugs Don’t Work: Tao Lin’s “Taipei” and the Literature of PharmacologyGod in Wayward Forms: Jamie Quatro’s Salvation-Seeking AdulteressesRevenge of the Dryasdusts: Paul Hazard’s “The Crisis of the European Mind”A City for Children in the Work of E. L. KonigsburgLiberal Bias or Neoliberal Bias?: Neil Gross's "Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?"Rewiring Literary CriticismPandas, Professors, and Promises, or, The MOOC Will Not Set Us FreeA Ladymass in the Distrito Federal: Veronica Gonzalez Peña's "The Sad Passions"The Weight of History: Colum McCann’s "TransAtlantic"Second Acts: A Second Look at Second Books by Geri Doran and Michael S. HarperPeak Adventure: On Mountaineering and the Enlightenment see all reviews »
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But What About the Soul: Poets at the Movies (Part 1)Bloomsday 2013: John JoyceMr. Chan and the MachineMOOCs and the Future of the Humanities: A Roundtable (Part 2)MOOCs and the Future of the Humanities: A Roundtable (Part 1)Rape in the Military: Ben Klay's TestimonyLove, Loneliness, Rot: "That Smell" and Egypt Under Nasser The White Worm: Shane Carruth's "Upstream Color"What’s Left to Say? Four Fitzgerald Scholars on Baz Luhrmann’s Gatsby“Bliss Unending”: Why Luhrmann’s Dangerously Romantic Take On Gatsby WorksHow To Read AgambenThe Empty Chair: A Petition for Ghassan ZaqtanPost-Structural Integrity: "Arrested Development," Season Four see all essays »
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[VIDEO] Mary Otis, "Yes, Yes, Cherries"Living It Up at the Death Café: An Interview with Lizzy MilesDigging Into Crimes: A Conversation with Peter May[VIDEO] Matthew Specktor, "American Dream Machine"Funambulism: An Interview with Colum McCannPODCAST #32: Jeff Weiss & Evan McGarvey, "2pac vs. Biggie"The Public Life of Poetry: An Interview with Natasha TretheweyThe Second Act of Alex Espinoza[VIDEO] Stephen Burt, "Belmont: Poems"50 Years of NYRB: An Interview with Robert Silvers Paul Farmer: What He’s Afraid of, and What’s Wrong With The Way We Do AidContextual Loneliness: An Interview with Fiona MaazelPODCAST #31: Marc Maron, "Attempting Normal"[VIDEO] Tom Bissell and The Perks of Being a Dilettante see all interviews »
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Vievee Francis interviews Charles Henry Rowell

“In Voluntary Solitude: An Interview with Charles Henry Rowell”

May 31st, 2013
Robert Birnbaum interviews David Shields

“The Innermost Law of the Form: An Interview with David Shields”

April 25th, 2013
Evan Allgood interviews Sam Lipsyte

“It May Not Be Okay, But This Thing Exists: An Interview with Sam Lipsyte”

April 7th, 2013
John Cline interviews Michael Taussig

“I Swear I Read This: John Cline Interviews Michael Taussig”

January 3rd, 2013
MaryAnne Kolton interviews Ken Bruen

“An Interview with Ken Bruen: The Jack Taylor Series”

November 24th, 2012
David Masciotra interviews James Lee Burke

“Into the Noir Mystic: A Conversation about Injustice, Evil, and Redemption with James Lee Burke”

September 9th, 2012
Jonathan Kirsch interviews Irvin Yalom

“Irvin Yalom, interviewed by Jonathan Kirsch”

June 24th, 2012
MaryAnne Kolton interviews Kathryn Harrison

“I Want to Destroy Your Equilibrium”

June 11th, 2012
Jonathan Penner interviews David Cronenberg

“It's Dangerous to Be An Artist: An Interview with David Cronenberg”

January 28th, 2012
Lee Konstantinou interviews Helen DeWitt

“It's Good To Be Pragmatic: An Interview with Helen DeWitt”

November 21st, 2011

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