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John Freeman

John Freeman
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
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Take a break from the news by reading about voter shenanigans in William Kennedy’s Roscoe.

November 3, 2020  By John Freeman
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How Halldór Laxness Brings the Heroic to the Everyday

John Freeman on the Moral Power of Independent People
October 6, 2020  By John Freeman
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Voting is a Public Health Issue Now

Ari Berman on Safeguarding Our Democracy
May 28, 2020  By John Freeman
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“The Waltz”

A Poem by John Freeman
May 5, 2020  By John Freeman
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Remembering Frank O’Hara’s New York—and his generosity.

May 4, 2020  By John Freeman
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Some of the best of online poetry, as read by actual poets.

April 1, 2020  By John Freeman
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Vivian Gornick and the Revolution That Won’t End

John Freeman with the Author of Unfinished Business
February 10, 2020  By John Freeman
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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
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Holding the Line Between Democracy and Tyranny: Anonymous Sources

John Freeman on the Power of the Whistleblower
November 15, 2019  By John Freeman
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On J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron: Perennially, Lamentably, Current

John Freeman Rereads a Contemporary Classic
October 18, 2019  By John Freeman
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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
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Nobel Prize-Winner Olga Tokarczuk in Conversation with John Freeman

The Newly Minted Laureate and Author of Flights
October 10, 2019  By John Freeman
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On the Rare Decency of
Susan Kamil

John Freeman Remembers One of Publishing's Great Editors
September 16, 2019  By John Freeman
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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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On the Poetic Legacy of W.S. Merwin

John Freeman on The Collected Poems
March 19, 2019  By John Freeman
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