How to Be a Whaler's Wife in 1908: Boil Everything, Wash the Clothes in Gin

How to Be a Whaler's Wife in 1908: Boil Everything, Wash the Clothes in Gin

Shirley Barrett Goes Deep into the Domestic Research

By Shirley Barrett | March 23, 2016

Secrets and Lies: Why the Best Spies Are Married

Secrets and Lies: Why the Best Spies Are Married

On Chris Pavone's Finely Wrought Espionage Fiction

By Lisa Levy | March 22, 2016

Why We Love Weird Fairy Tales

Why We Love Weird Fairy Tales

From the Tale of Tales to Michael Cunningham to Helen Oyeyemi...

By Tobias Carroll | March 17, 2016

Adrian McKinty: Working-Class Hero of Irish Crime Fiction

Adrian McKinty: Working-Class Hero of Irish Crime Fiction

Lisa Levy Profiles the Man Behind the Sean Duffy Series

By Lisa Levy | March 17, 2016

This Writer: On Social Work and Fiction

This Writer: On Social Work and Fiction

"The work has to leave me, and I have to be able to let it go"

By Rosalie Knecht | March 15, 2016

Tracey Chevalier: Past President of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Club

Tracey Chevalier: Past President of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Club

On Little House on the Prairie and mothers who are not Ma

By Tracy Chevalier | March 14, 2016

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Contemplating the Infinite with Annie Dillard

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Hidden Stories and Historical Half-truths: Lies Your Ancestors Told You

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Michel de Montaigne, Time Traveler

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Hannah Brooks-Motl on Where We Go When We Read, and Who We Become

By Hannah Brooks-Motl | February 29, 2016

Harper Lee and the Myth of a Post-Racial America

Harper Lee and the Myth of a Post-Racial America

On the Complicated Legacy of a Beloved Writer

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The Fine Grim Line Between Love and Stalking

The Fine Grim Line Between Love and Stalking

Lisa Levy On the Crime Fiction of Caroline Kepnes

By Lisa Levy | February 17, 2016

When Art Cannot Console Us in Death

When Art Cannot Console Us in Death

Emily Harnett on the Hard Art of the Death Memoir

By Emily Harnett | February 17, 2016

30 Books in 30 Days: Carmela Ciuraru on Colm Tóibín’s <em>On Elizabeth Bishop</em>

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By Carmela Ciuraru | February 17, 2016

30 Books in 30 Days: David Biespiel on Frank Stanford:

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