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How the Oversimplified “Gentrification Narrative” Was Born

How the Oversimplified “Gentrification Narrative” Was Born

Bo McMillan on the Novels of L.J. Davis and What Certain Kinds of Stories Reveal About Cities

By Bo McMillan | July 29, 2021

How Much Did the History of American Chattel Slavery Shape William Faulkner’s <em>Absalom, Absalom!</em>?

How Much Did the History of American Chattel Slavery Shape William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!?

W. Ralph Eubanks on the Connection Between Faulkner’s Fiction, His Longtime Home, and the University of Mississippi

By W. Ralph Eubanks | July 29, 2021

What is the Point of Children’s Books About the Climate Crisis?

What is the Point of Children’s Books About the Climate Crisis?

Writers Consider What Books Can, and Can't, Do for Kids

By Megan Otto | July 29, 2021

Being Seen: 5 Great Books That Capture the Essence of Coming of Age

Being Seen: 5 Great Books That Capture the Essence of Coming of Age

Contributors to the New Anthology Up All Night Recommend Stephen King, K. Ancrum, and More

By Laura Silverman | July 29, 2021

Why Be a Critic? Laura Miller on Reading, Listening to, and Writing About Books

Why Be a Critic? Laura Miller on Reading, Listening to, and Writing About Books

In Conversation with V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | July 29, 2021

Shaping Hunger Into Practice: On the Creative Relationship Between Writers and Visual Artists

Shaping Hunger Into Practice: On the Creative Relationship Between Writers and Visual Artists

Sally Cabot Gunning Talks Painting the Light and Books that Spotlight Women Artists

By Sally Cabot Gunning | July 29, 2021

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In America, Language Silences You: On Trusting Words When They Fail, Betray, And Redeem

By Amanda Choo Quan | July 28, 2021

What It Means to Exist: Bethany C. Morrow, TJ Klune, and Naomi Wiens on Sci-Fi for Teens

By Tor Presents: Voyage into Genre | July 28, 2021

Matthew Specktor on the “Cubist Razor Blade” of Extreme Success

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | July 28, 2021

Michelle Orange on the Particular Anger Between Mothers and Daughters

Michelle Orange on the Particular Anger Between Mothers and Daughters

In Conversation with Jordan Kisner on the Thresholds Podcast

By Thresholds | July 28, 2021

On Morality and Fools in Paul Fleischman’s <em>Graven Images</em>

On Morality and Fools in Paul Fleischman’s Graven Images

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | July 28, 2021

Maggie Smith on How to Revise Poems Without Losing the Initial Spark

Maggie Smith on How to Revise Poems Without Losing the Initial Spark

“If a poem is a machine made of words, it only runs as well as the words we choose to build it.”

By Maggie Smith | July 27, 2021

Alix Ohlin on Navigating the Rich Literary Territory of Dysfunctional Family Dynamics

Alix Ohlin on Navigating the Rich Literary Territory of Dysfunctional Family Dynamics

The Author of We Want What We Want Talks to Jane Ciabattari

By Jane Ciabattari | July 27, 2021

8 Books About the Messiness and Beauty of Queer Life

8 Books About the Messiness and Beauty of Queer Life

Amanda Kabak Recommends Sarah Waters, Michael Cunningham, and More

By Amanda Kabak | July 27, 2021

20 new books to get you through the week.

20 new books to get you through the week.

By Katie Yee | July 27, 2021

Mary Jo Bang Wonders Why It Takes So Long to Meet Beatrice in Dante’s <em>Inferno</em>

Mary Jo Bang Wonders Why It Takes So Long to Meet Beatrice in Dante’s Inferno

Considering the Scarcity of Female Characters in the Cantos

By Mary Jo Bang | July 26, 2021

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