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‘After sex on the damp sheets, we passed out’
Natalie Portman has disputed the musician’s account of their ‘relationship’. But fear not: his new book has plenty more steamy stories
The Under-Appreciated Feminism of "The Thomas Crown Affair"
The way the story changed from 1968 to 1999 shows growth for the female lead—but there's still further to go
The Responsibilities of a Book Critic in the Era of a Trump…
2019 Pulitzer-prize winner Carlos Lozada on writing about class, identity politics, and the Mueller report
6-Week Nonfiction Workshop
“Every writer should leap at the chance to study with this instructor.” - former studentThis is a course for students working on personal essays,...
Jonathan Franzen’s Scorn for Social Media Keeps Him From Making a Difference
I used to think Jonathan Franzen had the potential to change the world. I found Freedom on a shelf in a hostel in Croatia. I read it on dark night buses through the countryside as I traveled…
Fernando Flores Recommends 5 Books by Women
The author of "Tears of the Trufflepig" on recent favorite reads that aren't by men
Emily Dickinson Isn't Difficult—She's Just Misunderstood
The new film "Wild Nights with Emily" fills in the gaps and omissions that have made the poet seem hard to understand
"The Crazy Bunch" Is a Poetry Collection About a 1990s Breakdance Crew
Poet Willie Perdomo on translating a summer weekend in East Harlem into verse
The Book That Defined My Teen Anxiety Turned Out to Be a…
The sobering message of "Go Ask Alice" had a huge effect on my life—and then I found out the real story
20 Translated Short Story Collections from Around the World
Some of the best short stories in English weren't originally in English
The World Didn't End, Things Just Got Blurry
“There and There and There and There” by Alexander Lumans All the quality blankets: gone. They hadn’t vanished in some magical boom of smoke; everyone from our camp simply reached the wall by sunrise,…
6-Week Online Fiction Workshop: A Way into Your Novel
There’s a story you want to tell, a novel you’ve always wanted to write, but you can’t figure out how to get there. You’ve tried writing the...
Mei Kawajiri's dazzling nail art universe
After college, I became more comfortable with my queerness and began painting my nails in earnest. I discovered that a baby blue manicure provoked wildly different responses from subway passengers and…
Who Was the First Asian American Author You Read?
Alexander Chee, Monique Truong, and 18 other writers on the first time they saw themselves reflected in literature
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Julia Child Was a Champion for Reproductive Rights
People who have never cooked a single recipe of Julia Child’s have still heard about that time she dropped and re-plated a chicken on live TV. That the dish was actually a potato pancake and only a…
7 Novels About Black People in Love
Sara Collins, author of "The Confessions of Frannie Langton," on how fiction should reflect the universality of love
Books Where the Dog Dies, Rewritten So the Dog Doesn't Die
Old Yeller It came clear to me that Mama was right. And from everything I had heard, I knew that there was very little chance of Old Yeller’s escaping the sickness. It was going to kill something…
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What to Read Now That "Game of Thrones" Is Over
If you've plowed through the show and the books it's based on, here are some other authors exploring similar themes
How Do You Know If Your Writing Is Any Good?
The Blunt Instrument is a monthly advice column for writers. If you need tough advice for a writing problem, send your question to blunt@electricliterature.com. Dear Blunt Instrument, My questions for…
The Original "Sex Strike" Was a Farce and This One Is Too
A Classics scholar on the pitfalls—and potential—of basing your activism on "Lysistrata"