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Intimacy and Manipulation: A Reading List of Fictional Diaries

Intimacy and Manipulation: A Reading List of Fictional Diaries

Elizabeth Brooks Recommends Books by E.M. Delafield, Margaret Forster, and More

By Elizabeth Brooks | September 28, 2022

Tracking Character Growth in Ellen Raskin’s Beloved Children’s Novel <em>The Westing Game</em>

Tracking Character Growth in Ellen Raskin’s Beloved Children’s Novel The Westing Game

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | September 28, 2022

15 new books to get cozy with this week.

15 new books to get cozy with this week.

By Katie Yee | September 27, 2022

Generation Amazing!!! How We’re Draining Language of Its Power

Generation Amazing!!! How We’re Draining Language of Its Power

Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza on the “Maxim of Extravagance”

By Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza | September 27, 2022

Kamila Shamsie on Finding the Perfect Writing Space

Kamila Shamsie on Finding the Perfect Writing Space

“Perhaps there is no such thing as my writing space except wherever I happen to find myself.”

By Kamila Shamsie | September 27, 2022

On the Richness of Isaac Babel’s Odessa

On the Richness of Isaac Babel’s Odessa

Read Boris Dralyuk’s New Translation of “Lyubka the Cossack”

By Isaac Babel | September 27, 2022

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What Don Quixote Reveals About an Empire At Its Peak

By Giles Tremlett | September 27, 2022

Namwali Serpell on the Complex Processes That Create Fiction

By Jane Ciabattari | September 27, 2022

Translating in Tandem: A Reading List of Collaborative Translated Literature

By Daniel Hahn and Lisa Dillman | September 27, 2022

Six Books That Explore Loss Through Poetic Means

Six Books That Explore Loss Through Poetic Means

Juliet Patterson on Picking Up the Pieces with the Help of Literature

By Juliet Patterson | September 27, 2022

Neither Villain Nor Victim: Stacey D’Erasmo on Embracing Discomfort in Telling the Story of a Complicit Woman

Neither Villain Nor Victim: Stacey D’Erasmo on Embracing Discomfort in Telling the Story of a Complicit Woman

What It Means to Write in the Direction of Darkness

By Stacey D'Erasmo | September 26, 2022

Read Ted Berrigan’s Original Review of Frank O’Hara’s <em>Lunch Poems</em>

Read Ted Berrigan’s Original Review of Frank O’Hara’s Lunch Poems

“It’s a great book!”

By Ted Berrigan | September 26, 2022

Considering the Poetry of Molly Brodak and the Ache of the Unknowable World

Considering the Poetry of Molly Brodak and the Ache of the Unknowable World

Joseph Earp on Schizophrenia, Recovery, and Finding Connection When You Need It

By Joseph Earp | September 26, 2022

When Male Authors Write Male Violence

When Male Authors Write Male Violence

Philippa Snow on Ryu Murakami’s Novel Piercing

By Philippa Snow | September 26, 2022

Qian Julie Wang on Commuting, People-Watching, and Letting the Story Marinate

Qian Julie Wang on Commuting, People-Watching, and Letting the Story Marinate

“I delete and demolish with zeal.”

By Literary Hub | September 26, 2022

There Were British Spy Novels Before James Bond

There Were British Spy Novels Before James Bond

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | September 26, 2022

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