• Features

    Reading Lists

    30 New Books Critics Think You Should Read Right Now

    By Literary Hub  March 18, 2024
    On Translation

    How Translating a Novel About Emily Dickinson Got Rhonda Mullins Through the Pandemic

    By Rhonda Mullins  March 18, 2024
    Spies

    Writer, Woman, Playwright, Spy: How Espionage Influenced Aphra Behn’s Writing

    By Valorie Castellanos Clark  March 18, 2024
    Basketball

    How Lew Alcindor Became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

    By Scott Howard-Cooper  March 18, 2024
    Asian American Literature

    Between Assimilation and Authenticity: On Navigating Discourses Around Asian American Literary Identity

    By Laura Chow Reeve  March 18, 2024
    Activism

    Francophone, Anglophone… Cameroonian? Musih Tedji Xaviere on Telling the Story of Her Country’s Struggles

    By Musih Tedji Xaviere  March 18, 2024
    Behind the Mic

    Celebrating 1500 Episodes of Behind the Mic with Robin Whitten

    By Behind the Mic   March 18, 2024
    First Draft

    Téa Obreht on How She Found The Morningside

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   March 18, 2024
    Write-minded

    Lissa Soep on Other People’s Words

    By Write-minded   March 18, 2024
    The Bible

    Sacrifice and Obedience: Marilynne Robinson on the Timeless Tale of Abraham and Isaac

    By Marilynne Robinson  March 15, 2024
    Missed Connections

    On the Missed Crimean Connection Between Leo Tolstoy and Florence Nightingale

    By Melissa Pritchard  March 15, 2024
    Book Design

    Not Just Covers, But Every Page: Why Writers Should Talk About Book Design Early On

    By Debbie Berne  March 15, 2024
    Aging

    Fashionably Old: Lyn Slater on Aging With Attitude

    By Lyn Slater  March 15, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    “I Won’t Kill It. I’ll Just Surprise It.” Corey Sobel on the Impact of Writing Physical Action

    By Corey Sobel  March 15, 2024
    In Conversation

    Katya Apekina Talks Psychics, Slavic Stories, and Writing as Trance

    By Melissa Ximena Golebiowski  March 15, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

    By Book Marks  March 15, 2024
    Women in History

    Our Founding Mothers: On the Women Who Changed the Modern World

    By Stephanie Dray  March 15, 2024
    Nature Writing

    “So Boundless an Affluence of Sublime Mountain Beauty…” When John Muir First Encountered Yosemite

    By Dean King  March 14, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Emily Raboteau on Mothering and Climate Change

    By Fiction Non Fiction  March 14, 2024
    Retellings

    From Red Riding Hood to Beowulf: On the Essential Role of Literary Reimaginings

    By Joel H. Morris  March 14, 2024
    The Internet Age

    Why People Rage at Recipes: On the Current State of Online Food Discourse

    By Geraldine DeRuiter  March 14, 2024
    In Conversation

    “Humanity is Not an Abstract Concept.” Lana Bastašić on Palestine Solidarity, Dubravka Ugrešić, and More

    By John Freeman  March 14, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  March 14, 2024
    Natural History

    Secrets in Amber: How Trees Help Preserve Essential Prehistory

    By Daniel Lewis  March 14, 2024
    literary criticism

    The Barbara Comyns Novel That Got Too Real About Poverty, Giving Birth, and Women’s Lives

    By Avril Horner  March 14, 2024
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