• Literary Criticism

    Craft and Criticism

    On the Similarities Between Writing and Turning Oneself Into a Werewolf

    By Douglas Kearney  November 30, 2022
    Book Covers

    The 11 Best Book Covers of November

    By Emily Temple  November 30, 2022
    Otherppl

    Emily Pifer: Finding Truth (and Lying to Herself) While Editing Her Debut Memoir

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  November 30, 2022
    Reading List

    The 23 Best (Old) Books We Read in 2022

    By Emily Temple  November 29, 2022
    Keen On

    When Chekhov Became Chekhov: How the Son of a Serf Became a Literary Genius

    By Keen On  November 29, 2022
    Narrative

    How Stories Create Individual and Collective Pasts, Presents, and Futures

    By Mary-Alice Daniel  November 29, 2022
    The West

    Bad Trips and Borderlands: Take a Literary Tour of the New American West

    By Kay Chronister  November 29, 2022
    Inspiration

    Always on the Clock: On the Writerly Need to Find Ideas in Unexpected Places

    By Ethan Joella  November 29, 2022
    Write-minded

    Angie Cruz on Unexpected Creative Intersections and Influences

    By Write-minded   November 29, 2022
    The Literary Journal Archives

    Deep in the Literary Journal Archives: Poetry That Takes Risks and Takes Up Space

    By Nick Ripatrazone  November 29, 2022
    new books tuesday

    8 new books for your reading pleasure.

    By Katie Yee  November 29, 2022
    So Many Damn Books

    “It’s Kind of Embarrassing to Admit the Depth of My Obsession” Ashley Hutson on Watching Three’s Company and Writing Her Novel

    By So Many Damn Books  November 29, 2022
    #MeToo

    On Women Talking and the Unreliable Narrators of Post-MeToo Literature

    By Emma Staffaroni  November 28, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Live from Writers for Readers in Kansas City: Alexander Chee on Editing Best American Essays 2022

    By Fiction Non Fiction  November 23, 2022
    Literary History

    How Virginia Woolf Shunned—and Then Embraced—T.S. Eliot

    By Lyndall Gordon  November 23, 2022
    I'm a Writer But

    Coco Picard on Trusting Narrative Magic

    By I'm a Writer But   November 23, 2022
    Otherppl

    “It’s Actually Pretty Simple.” Kyle Spencer on How People Form Their Politics

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  November 23, 2022
    What to Watch

    Rereading White Noise and Feeling Deep Dread… For Noah Baumbach’s Adaptation

    By Ken Gordon  November 22, 2022
    The Internet

    How to Gain a Gazillion Followers Online, Taco Bell Quarterly-Style

    By MM Carrigan  November 22, 2022
    Novellas

    The Antidote to Everything: Kenneth C. Davis on the Balm of Short Novels

    By Kenneth C. Davis  November 22, 2022
    Writers in Conversation

    Novelist Katy Hays on What Tarot Tells Us About Ourselves

    By Jane Ciabattari  November 22, 2022
    Miami Book Fair

    Ada Calhoun and Maud Newton on the Revelations We Gain From Writing

    By The Virtual Book Channel  November 22, 2022
    Miami Book Fair

    Billy Porter: It’s Never Easy to Be Yourself

    By The Virtual Book Channel  November 22, 2022
    Miami Book Fair

    Sandra Cisneros and Manuel Muñoz on “the Undocumented of American Letters”

    By The Virtual Book Channel  November 22, 2022
    Miami Book Fair

    Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, Jean Hanff Korelitz, and Dani Shapiro on the Secrets in Our Pasts That Can Break Us Apart

    By The Virtual Book Channel  November 22, 2022
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