Craft and Criticism

Lit Crit

In Defense of Writing Books That May Never Be Read

Mark de Silva: “That language fails to capture experience is no cause for disappointment.”

 
By Mark de Silva  January 27, 2021
Rural America

Growth, Loss, and a Mailbox Mystery: 13 Years in Gray’s River Valley

By Robert Michael Pyle  January 27, 2021
The Writing Life

Embracing Imperfection: On Writing in a Second Language

By Kaori Fujimoto  January 27, 2021
Thresholds

Margo Jefferson: ‘If I Can’t Find a Way to Do That… Why Am I Writing a Memoir?’

By Thresholds   January 27, 2021
Otherppl

Te-Ping Chen on Finding Moments of Magical Realism in China

By Otherppl with Brad Listi  January 27, 2021
Reading Women

Reading Women’s Most Anticipated Books of 2021

By Reading Women  January 27, 2021
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
The Quarantine Tapes

Andy Borowitz on Political Satire After the Trump Administration

By The Quarantine Tapes  January 27, 2021
Literary Criticism

Joan Didion: Why I Write

By Joan Didion  January 26, 2021
Lit Century

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

By Lit Century   January 26, 2021
Beyond the Page

Barry Lopez: ‘We Don’t Need the Writer. What We Need is the Story, Because This Keeps Us Alive’

From Beyond the Page: The Best of the Sun Valley Writers‘ Conference

By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  January 27, 2021
Storybound

Jason Diamond Reads from
The Sprawl

By Storybound   January 26, 2021
So Many Damn Books

Mateo Askaripour on Sorry to Bother You and Giving Up the Scarcity Mindset

By So Many Damn Books  January 26, 2021
Politics

What’s Behind the Label ‘Domestic Fiction’?

By Soledad Fox Maura  January 25, 2021
The Quarantine Tapes

What James Baldwin Taught Nikky Finney About the Poet’s Responsibility to the Living

In Conversation with Walter Mosley on The Quarantine Tapes

By The Quarantine Tapes  January 25, 2021
Literary Tradition

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

By Eman Quotah  January 25, 2021
First Draft

Peter Ho Davies on Writing a Book That Hovers Between Fiction and Fact

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 25, 2021
Southern literature

The Troubled Task of Defining Southern Literature in 2021

By Ed Tarkington  January 22, 2021
Reading Habits

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
The Quarantine Tapes

Katrina vanden Heuvel: ‘A Great Nation Doesn’t Need to Boast’

By The Quarantine Tapes  January 22, 2021
Interview with a Poet

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

By Peter Mishler  January 22, 2021
Book Origins

On Heartbreak, Absence, and Falling in Love with The Great Gatsby

By David Stuart MacLean  January 21, 2021
The Maris Review

Mateo Askaripour on the Manifest Destiny of Startups

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review  January 21, 2021
The Quarantine Tapes

Paul Coates on Finding Hope—and Doubt—in the Present Moment

By The Quarantine Tapes  January 21, 2021
Technology

Why AI Can’t Properly Translate Proust—Yet

By Michael Wooldridge  January 20, 2021
Book Origins

How Do We Write About Political Crisis and Personal Conflict?

By Carys Davies  January 26, 2021
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