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Craft and Criticism

Style

A Brief History of (My) Dark Academia

"Dark academia is academia’s black swan and shadow self."

 
By Adrienne Raphel  September 28, 2022
Diaries

Intimacy and Manipulation: A Reading List of Fictional Diaries

By Elizabeth Brooks  September 28, 2022
The Virtual Book Channel

WATCH: Emma Ramadan on Translating Marguerite Duras’s Panics

By The Virtual Book Channel  September 28, 2022
Interview with an Indie Press

Interview with an Indie Press: Coach House Books

By Corinne Segal  September 28, 2022
Thresholds

How Amnesia Helped Ingrid Rojas Contreras Tell Her Family’s Stories

By Thresholds   September 28, 2022
NewberyTart

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

By NewberyTart   September 28, 2022
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Otherppl

Chelsea Martin on Accepting Her Writing Voice

By Otherppl with Brad Listi  September 28, 2022
The Literary Salon

Michael Pedersen Reads from Boy Friends

By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  September 28, 2022
Keen On

A Profane, Insane, Hilarious, and Disgusting Horror Novel About a Mother-In-Law from Hell

By Keen On  September 28, 2022
Poetry

The Found Poems of Goliarda Sapienza

Chiara Barzini on the Vibrant Poems of the Late Italian Poet

By Chiara Barzini  September 28, 2022
Language

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

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

Kamila Shamsie on Finding the Perfect Writing Space

By Kamila Shamsie  September 27, 2022
Ukrainian Literature

On the Richness of Isaac Babel’s Odessa

By Isaac Babel  September 27, 2022
Literary History

What Don Quixote Reveals About an Empire At Its Peak

Giles Tremlett on the Baroque Decadence of Spain’s Golden Age

By Giles Tremlett  September 27, 2022
Writers in Conversation

Namwali Serpell on the Complex Processes That Create Fiction

By Jane Ciabattari  September 27, 2022
On Translation

Translating in Tandem: A Reading List of Collaborative Translated Literature

By Daniel Hahn and Lisa Dillman  September 27, 2022
Grief

Six Books That Explore Loss Through Poetic Means

By Juliet Patterson  September 27, 2022
I'm a Writer But

Simon Jacobs on Writing Horror and Nailing Tone

In Conversation with Alex Higley and Lindsay Hunter on I'm a Writer But  

By I'm a Writer But   September 27, 2022
Keen On

Hafizah Augustus Geter on Personhood, Race, and Origin in America Today

By Keen On  September 27, 2022
Keen On

Richard Reeves Identifies Today’s Crisis of Masculinity and Explains How to Fix It

By Keen On  September 27, 2022
Keen On

Why the First Lady of Sales Believes the Word “Sales” is Cringeworthy

By Keen On  September 27, 2022
Lit Hub Questionnaire

Yiyun Li on Writing Advice (the Good, the Bad) and the Books She Always Returns To

The Author of The Book of Goose Takes the Lit Hub Questionnaire

By Literary Hub  September 26, 2022
Character Development

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

By Stacey D'Erasmo  September 26, 2022
News and Culture

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

By Ted Berrigan  September 26, 2022
The Hub

15 new books to get cozy with this week.

By Katie Yee  September 27, 2022
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