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Paradise Lost: On (Finally) Reading John Updike
After avoiding Updike her whole life due to his misogynist reputation, Meghan O'Gieblyn reads and reflects on Couples.
Weather Permitting
Perhaps we could chip away at capitalism, "Green Earth" suggests, if only it became obvious that the world was beginning to end.
A “Loneliness Called Los Angeles”: The Destiny of an Iranian-Jewish Family
"The Girl From the Garden" by Parnaz Foroutan interweaves concerns with patriarchy, fertility, and fate in early 20th-century Iran.
Fat Girl as Humanized Disaster
Mona Awad’s debut collection adds new depth to the fat girl in literature with this disastrous, so-sad-it’s-maybe-funny narrator.
Eating the Canon
Christina Hardyment compiles a compendium of literary meals in "Pleasures of the Table: A Literary Anthology."
A Prophetic Vision of Haiti’s Past
Jeremy Matthew Glick's "The Black Radical Tragic" is a book we were all waiting for without knowing it.
To Save Something, We Have to Eat It
Simran Sethi blames our narrow diet on the increasing loss of our agricultural biodiversity.
A Flare for Criticism
Our Bodies Refuse to Forget
The United States Is Not a Democracy
Commodification, Objectification, and the Corporatization of Exotic Dance
Type Slowly: Word Processing and Literary Composition
The Multiple Pasts, Presents, and Futures of Nnedi Okorafor’s Literary Nigeria
Marvel’s Trouble with Normal
Surely Some Revelation Is at Hand
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