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Books in an Expanded Field: The Story of Badlands Unlimited
On Paul Chan, artist and founder of Badlands Unlimited publishing
Matthew EricksonFeb 8, 2013
Reader, You Married Him: Male Writers, Female Readers, and the Marriage Plot
"No author writing today...can ignore the female reader."
Feb 7, 2013
Girls, Season 2: "It's a Shame About Ray"
Shame and Her Sisters
Evan Kindley, Jane HuFeb 5, 2013
Imperfect Strollers: Teju Cole, Ben Lerner, W.G. Sebald, and the Alienated Cosmopolitan
The evolution of the flâneur
Albert Wu, Michelle KuoFeb 2, 2013
A Broad's Laugh: On Pauline Kael
An tribute to the late great film critic
Richard KramerFeb 1, 2013
When the Lights Shut Off: Kendrick Lamar and the Decline of the Black Blues Narrative
Autobiography and memento mori from hip-hop's rising memoirist
Jan 31, 2013
Girls: "Bad Friend"
You Probably Think This Show is About You
Jan 30, 2013
You Better Work; or, How to Tell Friends from Faux: On "RuPaul's Drag Race"
Gender performance and the politics of pretend in 'RuPaul's Drag Race'
Jordan Alexander SteinJan 28, 2013
The State of the Union of Jane Austen, Fact and Fiction
Devoney LooserJan 27, 2013
George Saunders on his latest, "Tenth of December"
George Saunders on 'Tenth of December'
Jan 27, 2013
"Pride & Prejudice" Forever
Celebrating 200 years of Jane Austen's masterpiece
Audrey Bilger, Susan Celia GreenfieldJan 27, 2013
Giving Everything: On Diane di Prima
Revisiting the Beat luminary's radical life and work
Dale SmithJan 26, 2013
Answers on a Postcard: Deryn Rees-Jones’s Poetry
A letter from London, on the lyric.
Lytton SmithJan 24, 2013
Answers on a Postcard: British Enthusiasm and the Olympic Dismount
The aftermath of the after-party of the London Games
Lytton SmithJan 24, 2013
Reyna Grande on Immigration’s Toll
Stories of the 'deep, permanent costs of immigration'
Sandra TarlingJan 23, 2013
Girls, Season 2: "I Get Ideas"
Really? Et al?
Evan Kindley, Jane Hu, Lili Loofbourow, Phillip MaciakJan 22, 2013