Stories by lermontov

Reader Discretion Advised: On profanity and the sublime in poetry

On collecting memories: An interview with writer and essayist Adam Gopnik

Agatha Christie’s life rivaled the mysteries she created

What Did Napoleon Like to Eat and Drink? (2015)

Literature Shrugged: Worse than hatred of literature is indifference

Bohemian Tragedy: The rise and fall of George Sterling’s California arts colony

A forgotten theory of dreams that inspired Vladimir Nabokov

A Day at a Time: Christa Wolf’s Life Under Surveillance

Celebrating 50 years of an unforgettable tale of the desert

The Lost Modernist: David Jones

The Breakup Museum: Archiving the Way We Were

Exquisite Corpse: The Winter of 1947 in Europe

The Strange and Twisted Life of “Frankenstein”

The turmoil and talent of Charlotte Salomon

Charles Sprawson wrote a celebrated book, then vanished

How Schopenhauer’s thought can illuminate a midlife crisis

Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans

The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction by Ursula K. Le Guin (1986)

Milton's Morality: Fallen Man and the Fallen Stature of 'Paradise Lost'

I Was a Bank Robber Until I Read Kant

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