When people take to the streets to express their support or displeasure over … art?
Read MoreAt the height of dime novel and pulp magazine popularity, alarmist writers concocted — to great fanfare — racist images of Asian super villains and military takeovers.
Read MoreAs a founder of science fiction, Wells got a surprising share the future right. He also got some things very, very wrong.
Read MoreRandle Patrick McMurphy of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Hank Stamper of Sometimes a Great Notion: two men of incredible strength whom Kesey brings to their knees. Why?
Read MoreReaders should embrace classic literature, but we shouldn’t worship The Classics.
Read MoreTake a tour of the compound which the infamous Cartel boss called home while “incarcerated” in the early ‘90s.
Read MoreConsidering his revelry in poetry, sex and rebellion, you might assume that Charles Baudelaire was a man of the political left … but you’d be wrong.
Read MoreRichard Wright, John Cheever and Zora Neale Hurston were all employed by the short-lived, though influential government program.
Read MoreKeret’s new op-ed in The New Yorker resounds a very necessary call for writers to speak their minds.
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