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Joan Didion: Why I Write

Joan Didion: Why I Write

"I write entirely to find out what I’m thinking, what I’m looking at, what I see and what it means."

By Joan Didion | January 26, 2021

On the Ableist Attitudes That Framed V.C. Andrews as a Character in One of Her Novels

On the Ableist Attitudes That Framed V.C. Andrews as a Character in One of Her Novels

From the Lit Century Podcast with Sandra Newman
and Catherine Nichols

By Lit Century | January 26, 2021

What’s Behind the Label ‘Domestic Fiction’?

What’s Behind the Label ‘Domestic Fiction’?

Soledad Fox Maura on Rethinking Genre

By Soledad Fox Maura | January 25, 2021

Writing a Saudi American Novel When No One Has Done It Before

Writing a Saudi American Novel When No One Has Done It Before

Eman Quotah on the Beginning of a Tradition

By Eman Quotah | January 25, 2021

The Troubled Task of Defining Southern Literature in 2021

The Troubled Task of Defining Southern Literature in 2021

Ed Tarkington Reckons with a Fraught Literary History

By Ed Tarkington | January 22, 2021

Why Should We Read Unfinished Novels?

Why Should We Read Unfinished Novels?

Matthew Redmond on Fragments of Edgar Allan Poe, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, and More

By Matthew Redmond | January 22, 2021

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Martín Espada on Framing the Present Through the Lens of the Past

By Peter Mishler | January 22, 2021

Why AI Can’t Properly Translate Proust—Yet

By Michael Wooldridge | January 20, 2021

What Makes Flowers in the Attic the Perfect Quarantine Read?

By Lit Century | January 20, 2021

Patricia Highsmith’s Confessions and Rebellions at Yaddo

Patricia Highsmith’s Confessions and Rebellions at Yaddo

Richard Bradford on Strange Times at the Legendary Writers’ Retreat

By Richard Bradford | January 19, 2021

Yiyun Li on the Brilliance of Bette Howland

Yiyun Li on the Brilliance of Bette Howland

"Howland wrote a book that I thought was impossible to write."

By Yiyun Li | January 15, 2021

How Honest is Too Honest? 6 Books That Straddle That Line

How Honest is Too Honest? 6 Books That Straddle That Line

Michael Leviton Recommends Richard Wright,
Joyce Maynard, and More

By Michael Leviton | January 15, 2021

Why Kim Stanley Robinson Wrote a New Cli-Fi Novel... in Which Things Actually Get Better

Why Kim Stanley Robinson Wrote a New Cli-Fi Novel... in Which Things Actually Get Better

In Conversation with Rob Wolf on the New Books Network Podcast

By New Books Network | January 15, 2021

Amyra León on How Frida Kahlo Influenced Her to Write the Wound

Amyra León on How Frida Kahlo Influenced Her to Write the Wound

This Week on the History of Literature Podcast

By History of Literature | January 15, 2021

Revisiting the Brontës... Through Branwell's Reputed Affair

Revisiting the Brontës... Through Branwell's Reputed Affair

In Conversation with C.P. Lesley on the New Books Network Podcast

By New Books Network | January 15, 2021

Will Self: How Should We Read?

Will Self: How Should We Read?

In Praise of Literary Promiscuity in the Digital Age

By Will Self | January 14, 2021

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