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John Freeman is the editor of Freeman’s, a literary annual of new writing, and executive editor of Literary Hub. His books include How to Read a Novelist and Dictionary of the Undoing, as well as a trilogy of anthologies about inequality, including Tales of Two Americas, about inequity in the US at large, and Tales of Two Planets, which features storytellers from around the globe on the climate crisis. Maps, his debut collection of poems, was published in 2017, followed by The Park in 2020. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The New York Times. He is the former editor of Granta and teaches writing at NYU.
“Without,” a Poem by John Freeman
From the Collection Wind, Trees
December 5, 2022
By John Freeman
How Halldór Laxness Brings the Heroic to the Everyday
John Freeman on the Moral Power of Independent People
October 6, 2020
By John Freeman
Voting is Still One of Our Most Powerful Tools For Change
John Freeman on How Every Election is a Chance to Rebuild
September 29, 2020
By John Freeman
Daniel Mendelsohn Makes a Powerful Case for the
Art of Digression
The Author of Three Rings talks to John Freeman About Homer, Storytelling, and More
September 9, 2020
By John Freeman
It Takes Many Voices to Find the Truth
John Freeman on the Origins of The Tales of Two Planets
August 6, 2020
By John Freeman
Let the World Be a Black Poem: Poetry at a Time of Protest
Danez Smith, Robin Coste Lewis, and More
June 1, 2020
By John Freeman
Voting is a Public Health Issue Now
Ari Berman on Safeguarding Our Democracy
May 28, 2020
By John Freeman
“The Waltz”
A Poem by John Freeman
May 5, 2020
By John Freeman
May 4, 2020
By John Freeman
April 1, 2020
By John Freeman
Vivian Gornick and the Revolution That Won’t End
John Freeman with the Author of Unfinished Business
February 10, 2020
By John Freeman
Naja Marie Aidt on Creating Meaning from the Meaninglessness of Grief
John Freeman in Conversation with the Author of When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back
December 3, 2019
By John Freeman
Holding the Line Between Democracy and Tyranny: Anonymous Sources
John Freeman on the Power of the Whistleblower
November 15, 2019
By John Freeman
On J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron: Perennially, Lamentably, Current
John Freeman Rereads a Contemporary Classic
October 18, 2019
By John Freeman
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Norwegian Literature (Almost)
A Brief History of the "Guest of Honor" at This Year's Frankfurt Bookfair
October 15, 2019
By John Freeman
Nobel Prize-Winner Olga Tokarczuk in Conversation with John Freeman
The Newly Minted Laureate and Author of Flights
October 10, 2019
By John Freeman
On the Rare Decency of
Susan Kamil
John Freeman Remembers One of Publishing's Great Editors
September 16, 2019
By John Freeman
Leila Slimani Doesn’t Care If
You’re Uncomfortable
The Author of The Perfect Nanny Sits Down with John Freeman
April 29, 2019
By John Freeman
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