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Long form writing on authors, works, movements and literary questions, distinct from the shorter facts held directly on a subject's own page. An article takes on a single topic in depth, from a writer's life and influence to the history of a literary form or the case for and against a disputed attribution, usually running well beyond what a fact card can hold.

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A Collection Banned

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A Dance Before It Was a Poem

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A Danger Survived Is Not a Tragedy

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A Fable Collection's Long Journey

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A Field With Many Flags

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A Form Older Than Its Own Theory

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A Life Told Backwards

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A Magazine That Named a Movement

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A Name With No Agreed Origin

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A Novel Burned by Its Own Subjects

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A Novel with Two Orders

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A Novel Written on Toilet Paper

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A Poem With No Single Author

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A Pun That Named a Genre

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A Song Before It Was a Poem

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A Story with No Ending

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A Thousand and One Nights of Buying Time

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A Translation More Famous Than Its Original

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An Arabian Form's World Journey

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Boccaccio's Stanza for Epic Poetry

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Burned Unread: The Instruction Max Brod Refused

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Dada Does Not Mean Anything

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Decolonizing the Mind

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Don Quixote's Ambiguous Debt

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Don Quixote's Satire

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Fancy and Imagination

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Fifty-Two Adventures of a Con Man

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Five Books for a Prince

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From Columbia to City Lights

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From Satire to Domestic Plot

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From the Nile to Florence

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Hell Is Other People: Reading No Exit

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How a Poet's Arrest Ended a Golden Age

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How Comedy Split Off Its Own Poem

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Imagine Sisyphus Happy

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J'Accuse and the Cost of Dreyfus

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Langston Hughes and the Sound of Jazz on the Page

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Les Fleurs du Mal and the Trial of 1857

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Mayor and Poet

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Melville's Debt to Shakespeare in Moby-Dick

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Mexico as Subject

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Naked Lunch on Trial

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Naming a Generation

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Novelist and Candidate

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Poet Turned President

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Polyphony and the Many-Voiced Novel

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Rhyme Without Meter

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Shakespeare's Happy Endings

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Tales That Were Never Arabic

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The Astronomer Who May Not Have Written His Own Poems

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The Book That Brought a Fatwa

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The Break That Never Healed

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The Cut-Up Method

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The Decade the World Discovered Latin American Fiction

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The Devil's Party: Blake, Lewis and the Fight Over Milton's Satan

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The Diamond and the Vengeance: The Real Case Behind Monte Cristo's Revenge

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The Editor Who Turned Watchman Into a Mockingbird

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The First Book

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The First Folio and the Plays It Saved

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The Great Man Theory, Then and Now

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The Impostor Written Into Its Own Sequel

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The Inscription Inside Chapman's Copy of The Catcher in the Rye

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The Insect Kafka Refused to Have Drawn

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The Insult Dumas Answered, and France Answered Again

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The Locked Room: How Dupin Invented the Detective

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The Machine That Bankrupted Mark Twain, and the Debt He Paid Anyway

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The Man Who Did Not Invent It

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The Manifesto in The Nation: Hughes and the Racial Mountain

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The Manuscript Bulgakov Actually Burned

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The Manuscript Crosby Never Published

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The Manuscript He Went Back For: Dickens After Staplehurst

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The Manuscript That Burned

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The Manuscript Thomas Cadell Never Asked to See

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The Matter of Britain

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The Moral at the End Is Optional

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The Name He Chose

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The Novel Scott Was Ashamed to Sign

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The Novel the Censors Would Not Print

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The Novella's Own Defense

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The Painter of Modern Life, Before Symbolism Had a Name

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The Person from Porlock

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The Prize He Would Not Take

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The Publishers Who Nearly Buried Animal Farm

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The Real Kidnapping Case Nabokov Wrote Into Lolita

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The Recovered Manuscript Behind The Three Musketeers

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The Refrain Composers Wrote First

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The Rogue With No Author

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The Scroll

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The Second Who Could Not Finish Mishima's Seppuku

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The Serious Form That Learned to Joke

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The Six Gallery Reading

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The Tatler and the Essay's Third Voice

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The Theory Behind the Single Sitting

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The Trial That Cleared Howl

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The Villa Diodati Wager

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The Word He Coined

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The Word Is Older Than the Genre

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Things Fall Apart and the Start of a Field

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Three Lines, One Twist

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Three Movements of a Desert Ode

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Three Students and a Magazine

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Tolstoy Would Not Call War and Peace a Novel

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Two Slaves, Two Traditions

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Two Titles and a Late Date Behind Nineteen Eighty-Four

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Two Trials That Changed Publishing

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Whose Novel Came First

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Why a quarter of Les Misérables is not the plot

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Wounded at Aragon, Denounced in Barcelona

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Writing After the Attack

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Writing from Exile

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Zola's Experimental Novel: Science as Method

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Sources
Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit (1944)
Contains: Hell Is Other People: Reading No Exit
Jean-Paul Sartre (Britannica)
BritannicaContains: The Prize He Would Not Take
Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942)
Contains: Imagine Sisyphus Happy
Albert Camus (Britannica)
BritannicaContains: The Break That Never Healed
The Cambridge History of the English Short Story
Contains: The Locked Room: How Dupin Invented the Detective
The Norton Anthology of World Literature
W. W. Norton & CompanyContains: The Villa Diodati Wager
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