The Rumpus Interview with Alexander Chee
Alexander Chee talks about opera, the Wild West, and the charismatic women of 19th-century France that inspired his new novel The Queen of the Night.
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A Brief History of Pandering
Erasing women writers like Woolson carries immense implications. It creates an environment ripe for the continued marginalization and silencing of women’s voices today.
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Book reviews have grown nicer in recent years, with some publications eschewing negativity altogether. That wasn’t always the case. The earliest literary reviews were outright cruel, with publications trying to outdo their rivals. The Literary Review takes a look at the back-and-forth of the nasty book review culture of the nineteenth century.
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