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Passion and Patience: On the Timeless Virtues of Marguerite Yourcenar's Hadrian

Passion and Patience: On the Timeless Virtues of Marguerite Yourcenar's Hadrian

Dave Lucas Reads Memoirs of Hadrian in Lockdown

By Dave Lucas | June 8, 2020

The Latest Incarnation of Shirley Jackson on the Big Screen is Basically Fan Fiction

The Latest Incarnation of Shirley Jackson on the Big Screen is Basically Fan Fiction

And It's Great!

By Emily Temple | June 8, 2020

Live at the Red Ink Series: On Writing and Being Haunted

Live at the Red Ink Series: On Writing and Being Haunted

With Jaquira Díaz, Mira Ptacin, Crystal Hana Kim , Iris Martin Cohen, and Michele Filgate

By Literary Hub | June 5, 2020

Why Didn't

Why Didn't "Brazil's William Faulkner" Achieve the Same International Fame?

Padma Viswanathan on Graciliano Ramos

By Padma Viswanathan | June 3, 2020

The Interview That Adrienne Rich Never Wanted Published

The Interview That Adrienne Rich Never Wanted Published

Patrice Vecchione on Talking with Rich About Spirituality

By Patrice Vecchione | June 2, 2020

How Mary Oppen Rewrote the Role of the Artist’s Wife

How Mary Oppen Rewrote the Role of the Artist’s Wife

In Just One Book She Wrote a Life's Worth of Energy

By Abby Walthausen | May 28, 2020

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John Barth Deserves a Wider Audience

By John Domini | May 27, 2020

The Letter That Changed Emily Dickinson's Life

By Martha Ackmann | May 26, 2020

The 30 Best Bad Amazon Reviews for Flannery O'Connor's Short Stories

By Emily Temple | May 21, 2020

The Case of Oscar Wilde's Mistaken Identity in Naples

The Case of Oscar Wilde's Mistaken Identity in Naples

Renato Miracco on a Scandalized Italian Public

By Renato Miracco | May 21, 2020

Reading the Eccentric Italian Writer Who Tried to Cover Up His Fascism

Reading the Eccentric Italian Writer Who Tried to Cover Up His Fascism

Edmund White on Curzio Malaparte's Oblong Visions of the World

By Edmund White | May 20, 2020

Pre-Apocalyptic Fiction Shows Us What to Appreciate Before It's Gone

Pre-Apocalyptic Fiction Shows Us What to Appreciate Before It's Gone

Nancy Wayson Dinan on Literature of the Before and After

By Nancy Wayson Dinan | May 20, 2020

How I Hustled Hundreds of Dollars of Free Tacos for the Literary World

How I Hustled Hundreds of Dollars of Free Tacos for the Literary World

The Founder of Taco Bell Quarterly Tells All

By MM Carrigan | May 19, 2020

Defiant and Unsinkable: <br>The Ethos of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Defiant and Unsinkable:
The Ethos of Edna St. Vincent Millay

Olivia Gatwood on the Poet's Strength and Progressivism

By Olivia Gatwood | May 19, 2020

The Creative Communities That Changed Literature Forever

The Creative Communities That Changed Literature Forever

Maggie Doherty on the Writerly Life, From Concord to Asheville

By Maggie Doherty | May 19, 2020

How E.M. Forster's Only Foray Into Sci-Fi Predicted Social Distancing

How E.M. Forster's Only Foray Into Sci-Fi Predicted Social Distancing

Gabrielle Bellot on the Prescient Parallels of "The Machine Stops"

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 18, 2020

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