Craft and Criticism

Immigration

Silence at the Border: Telling the Hard Stories of Undocumented Immigration

Javier Zamora on Marcelo Hernandez Castillo's Children of the Land

 
By Javier Zamora  January 24, 2020
Criticism

How Does Garth Greenwell Make Such Wonderful Sentences?

By Christian Kiefer  January 23, 2020
On Death

What Neapolitans Understand About Death (Better Than Most)

By Lucia Benavides  January 23, 2020
Criticism

Everyone Can Be a Book Reviewer. Should They Be?

By Philippa K. Chong  January 23, 2020
Nigerian Culture

Wole Soyinka on Yoruba Weddings, Nigerian Movies, and Making
Traditions New

By Wole Soyinka  January 23, 2020
Young Adult

In Search of Los Angeles Magic: Retracing Weetzie Bat’s Steps with Francesca Lia Block

By Cynthia Drake  January 22, 2020
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Climate Change

Battling the False Narratives Around Australia’s Devastating Bushfires

By Jennifer Mills  January 22, 2020
The History of Reading

Rediscovering the Lost Power
of Reading Aloud

By Meghan Cox Gurdon  January 22, 2020
Language

Isaac Bashevis Singer on the Particular Wonders of Writing
in Yiddish

By Isaac Bashevis Singer  January 22, 2020
Consciousness

How, Exactly, Does Neuroscience Account for the Way We See Color?

Riccardo Manzotti and Tim Parks Debate the Internalist View of Consciousness

By Riccardo Manzotti and Tim Parks  January 24, 2020
Poetry

Wordsworth: Caught in the Act of Making Poetry!

By Adam Nicolson  January 21, 2020
Writer's Retreats

The Yurt at the Edge of the Sea:
A Writers’ Retreat on the California Coast

By Emily Cooke  January 21, 2020
Literary History

The Emotional Aftershocks of Alice Adams’ Most Celebrated Work

By Carol Sklenicka  January 21, 2020
Minimalism

On Contemporary Minimalism’s
Maximal Lies

Andru Okun Reads Kyle Chayka, Jenny Odell, and Oli Mould

By Andru Okun  January 17, 2020
Poets

The Enigma of Delmore Schwartz, the Luminous Poet Who Fell From Grace

By Ben Mazer  January 17, 2020
New Books Network

Christopher Brown on Serving on the Inspiration Behind Rule of Capture

By New Books Network  January 17, 2020
New Books Network

Katherine Kayne on the Strong Women of Hawaii’s Painful History

By New Books Network  January 17, 2020
New Books Network

K Chess: Imagining a Radically Different 20th Century That Might Have Been

In Conversation with Rob Wolf on the New Books Network About Famous Men Who Never Lived

By New Books Network  January 17, 2020
In Conversation

Talking Poetry and Porn with Garth Greenwell in a West Village Bar

By Brian Gresko  January 16, 2020
In Translation

The Art of War is Actually a Manual on How to Avoid It

By Michael Nylan  January 16, 2020
American Identity

John F. Callahan on Ralph Ellison’s Two Inviolable Identities

By John F. Callahan  January 16, 2020
Indian Politics

Nationalism, Exclusionary Politics, and the Fate of Kashmir Under Modi’s India

Rohini Mohan and Praveen Donthi Talk to V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction  January 16, 2020
Silicon Valley

Anna Wiener: On Hustle-Porn Culture and the Death
of Benign Tech

By Kristin Iversen  January 15, 2020
Criticism

James Wood: What is at Stake When We Write Literary Criticism?

By James Wood  January 15, 2020
Audiobooks

In Conversation with Legendary Harry Potter Audiobook Narrator Jim Dale

By Behind the Mic   January 22, 2020
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