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- The best children’s literature appeals to all ages: on Elena Ferrante’s dark kids’ book. | Literary Hub
- Writers and power: lessons from Kundera and Hrabal’s Czechoslovakia. | Literary Hub
- On a new generation of Joan Didion’s wayward literary daughters. | Literary Hub
- From Isabel Greenberg’s beautiful One Hundred Nights of Hero. | Literary Hub
- D. Wystan Owen gets lost in William Trevor’s world. | Literary Hub
- “I went to that polluted universe that is the narrative world, the world of the narrators. If I had kept my novels hidden, I would have a very respected name as a poet.” An interview with Carmen Boullosa. | Guernica
- A new issue of Public Books, including pieces on Victor LaValle and police brutality, being Octavia Butler’s neighbor, and animal interiority, is now online. | Public Books
- “The engine of his intelligence was turned painfully inwards. He had the brain that ate itself.” On David Foster Wallace and depression. | Hazlitt
- “In France, he would already be famous.” On Eliot Weinberger’s curious and wide-ranging oeuvre. | The New Yorker
- “In my version of the universe, everyone is capable of being a hero. Everyone.” A panel discussion on the changing face—and politics—of science fiction. | The New Inquiry
- This same moment of uncertainty can also be one of realization and resolve: Rafia Zakaria on the lessons American liberals can take from Pakistan. | Tin House
- Poetry, Proust, and translating your own father’s novel: Chloe Aridjis and Chloe Garcia Roberts in conversation. | The Critical Flame
