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I Read Everything Janet Malcolm Ever Published

Author Janet Malcolm Photo by Kevin Sturman The most exciting-to-read works of journalism often betray little evidence of how tedious they were to report. Baroque murder trials come with thousands of…
PUBLISHED: May 3, 2013
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2834 words)

Essay: Bleakness. Laughter. Liberation?

The second time someone told me I was dying I was 30 years old. The first time I was 23, but I was living in Montréal then and chalked up the nurse’s proclamation of my impending demise…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1789 words)

Outside the Zone: Searching for Sarai Sierra by by Kaya Genç

TWO WEEKS AGO I visited one of the most crowded Starbucks branches in Istanbul. My goal was to write a piece on Julian Barnes’s latest essay collection, but while working on the opening…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1780 words)
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Morphology

The flies showed up in January. I left for work and there was nothing, but when I got home there they were—maybe fifty of them, coating the long fluorescent light above our bed, like fuzzy,…
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6823 words)

Reader, You Married Him: Male Writers, Female Readers, and the Marriage Plot by by Alix Ohlin

image: Antoine Wiertz, The Reader of Novels 1.  IN ANTOINE WIERTZ’S 1853 painting The Reader of Novels, a naked woman lies on her back, comfortably secluded in her boudoir, holding a copy…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3771 words)

In the Blood

A 1928 advertisement for a play of Bram Stoker’s story. “Unclean, unclean!” Mina Harker screams, gathering he
PUBLISHED: March 16, 2009
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5820 words)

Rivals

1998 Pre-Season My sister Wookie moved to Toronto to join The National Ballet. She arrived with a small suitcase in hand, leaving the bulk of her belongings back in Ottawa at Mom and Dad's. I felt…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2876 words)

Vol. 5, No. 1 EDITOR’S NOTE In A.M. Homes’ new...

by A.M. Homes Recommended by Electric Literature SHE HEARS HIS CAR GRINDING UP THE HILL. At the edge of the driveway, the engine shudders, continuing on for a few seconds before falling silent.…
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6976 words)

Being and Not Being Here and There

That it seems strange to say the birth of the virtual self occurred more than three centuries ago in small candlelit rooms replete with parchment and ink wells makes it no less true. When Descartes…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2504 words)
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