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

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

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

The Author of Floaters in Conversation with Peter Mishler

By Peter Mishler | January 22, 2021

Why AI Can’t Properly Translate Proust—Yet

Why AI Can’t Properly Translate Proust—Yet

Michael Wooldridge on the Limits of Literary Automation

By Michael Wooldridge | January 20, 2021

What Makes <em>Flowers in the Attic</em> the Perfect Quarantine Read?

What Makes Flowers in the Attic the Perfect Quarantine Read?

From the Lit Century Podcast with Sandra Newman
and Catherine Nichols

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

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

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

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

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

6 Disorienting Reads for a Very Disorienting Time

6 Disorienting Reads for a Very Disorienting Time

Melissa Albert Suggests Susanna Clarke, Jo Walton, and More

By Melissa Albert | January 13, 2021

Bombs and Books: On Graham Greene’s Life During <br>World War II

Bombs and Books: On Graham Greene’s Life During
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Richard Greene Charts How a Great Writer Navigated a Period of Destructive Tumult

By Richard Greene | January 13, 2021

Raven Leilani: It’s More Humane to Allow the Narrator to Be Unreliable

Raven Leilani: It’s More Humane to Allow the Narrator to Be Unreliable

From the Thresholds Podcast, Hosted by Jordan Kisner

By Thresholds | January 13, 2021

On Discovering Zimbabwean Literature as a Zimbabwean Writer

On Discovering Zimbabwean Literature as a Zimbabwean Writer

Siphiwe Ndlovu Charts the Path to Her Debut Novel

By Siphiwe Gloria Ndlovu | January 13, 2021

What Makes a Teachable YA Book? When It Shows Teens to Think for Themselves

What Makes a Teachable YA Book? When It Shows Teens to Think for Themselves

This Week on The NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | January 13, 2021

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