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Embodied, Unbodied, and the Body Destroyed: Five Books About the Body

Embodied, Unbodied, and the Body Destroyed: Five Books About the Body

Lydia Mathis Recommends Justin Torres, Jesmyn Ward, Sarah Gailey, and More

By Lydia Mathis | September 16, 2026

How Madeleine Thien Organizes Her Bookshelves, Among Other Things

How Madeleine Thien Organizes Her Bookshelves, Among Other Things

A Questionnaire With the Author of Simple Recipes

By Madeleine Thien | September 15, 2026

The Conveniences I Used to Write a Book About Inconvenience (Definitely Not AI)

The Conveniences I Used to Write a Book About Inconvenience (Definitely Not AI)

Gabe Bullard on Avoiding AI, Enshittification, and How Convenience Culture Makes a Lot of Things Worse

By Gabe Bullard | September 15, 2026

When Your Town Needs a Bookstore... Why Not Open One Yourself?

When Your Town Needs a Bookstore... Why Not Open One Yourself?

Rachel Pastan on Building Community and Writing a Novel

By Rachel Pastan | September 14, 2026

How Raising a Multilingual Tot Helped Me Write a Multicultural Novel

How Raising a Multilingual Tot Helped Me Write a Multicultural Novel

Bo Wang on Finding Ways to Seamlessly Incorporate English and Mandarin Into Her Fiction

By Bo Wang | September 14, 2026

Harlan Coben Answers the Age-Old Question: “Where Do You Get Your Ideas?”

Harlan Coben Answers the Age-Old Question: “Where Do You Get Your Ideas?”

“Sometimes, it’s a simple ‘what-if.’”

By Harlan Coben | September 11, 2026

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Tom Cole on Autofiction, Shame-Based Writing, and Being an Unreliable Narrator

By Morgan Bassichis | September 11, 2026

My Partner Refuses to Read or Even TALK About Books? Should We Break Up?

By Kristen Arnett | September 10, 2026

Nine Novels That Make an Art of Earnestness

By Stef Ferrari | September 10, 2026

Learning From Shame: R.F. Kuang on Diaspora, Language and Writing Young Protagonists

Learning From Shame: R.F. Kuang on Diaspora, Language and Writing Young Protagonists

Adam Dalva Talks to the Author of Taipei Story

By Adam Dalva | September 9, 2026

“Get Out.” Advice on Teaching High School From the Late, Great Frank McCourt

“Get Out.” Advice on Teaching High School From the Late, Great Frank McCourt

Tom Allon on His Enduring Friendship with the Beloved Irish Memoirist

By Tom Allon | September 9, 2026

The Literary Agent Who Lost the Narrative Thread

The Literary Agent Who Lost the Narrative Thread

Jennifer Herrera on Reckoning with Grief and How She Tells Her Story

By Jennifer Michelle Herrera | September 9, 2026

Adam Erlich Sachs on Heinrich von Kleist’s <em>Michael Kohlhaas</em>

Adam Erlich Sachs on Heinrich von Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | September 9, 2026

Emily Wilson Talks Complicated Men, Celebrating Strangeness, and Why There is Always Another Way to Say It

Emily Wilson Talks Complicated Men, Celebrating Strangeness, and Why There is Always Another Way to Say It

In Conversation with Leanne Ogasawara

By Leanne Ogasawara | September 8, 2026

Anna Silman on Revisiting the Interview

Anna Silman on Revisiting the Interview

In Conversation with Merve Emre on The Critic and Her Publics

By The Critic and Her Publics | September 8, 2026

How to Get Over the Hump of Writing Sex

How to Get Over the Hump of Writing Sex

Suzanne Roberts Offers Some Prompts For Accessing Love and Lust

By Suzanne Roberts | September 4, 2026

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