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Craft and Criticism

The Hub

Abusive soccer star Ryan Giggs is also responsible for the worst “love” poem ever written.

 
By Jonny Diamond  August 19, 2022
Best Reviewed Books of the Week

What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

By Book Marks  August 19, 2022
The Craft of Writing

Mary Gaitskill on the Challenges—and Risks—of Writing Political Fiction

By Mary Gaitskill  August 19, 2022
Keen On

If Nietzsche Was a Narwhal: What Animal Intelligence Reveals About Human Stupidity

By Keen On  August 19, 2022
Trauma

The Books That Help Beth Macy Find Threads of Hope While Writing About Trauma

By Beth Macy  August 19, 2022
Keen On

The Prophet of the Andes: A Latin American Journey to the Promised Land

By Keen On  August 19, 2022
Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
Keen On

On Carlos Ghosn and the Limits of Davos Man and the Globalized Neoliberal Order

By Keen On  August 19, 2022
The Hub

A young Russian soldier has written a scathing account of Putin’s inept war.

By Jonny Diamond  August 18, 2022
13 Ways of Looking

13 Ways of Looking at a Family: Maud Newton on the Imagery of Ancestors (Including Her Own)

By Maud Newton  August 18, 2022
What to Watch

Art Doesn’t Care If You Like It: Gabrielle Bellot on The Sandman Adaptation

“Why should art need to appease and excite everyone at once?”

By Gabrielle Bellot  August 19, 2022
Children's Literature

Japanese American Incarceration for Children: Brandon Shimoda on Reading with His Daughter

By Brandon Shimoda  August 18, 2022
The Maris Review

Steven W. Thrasher on How Viruses Affect Economic Mobility As Much As Health

By The Maris Review  August 18, 2022
Publishing

The PRH Trial Has Revealed a Barely Hidden Scorn for Independent Publishers

By Margot Atwell  August 18, 2022
Fiction/Non/Fiction

Fascism Past and Present: Anthony Marra on What the Censorship of 1940s Hollywood and Italy Can Teach Us

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction  August 18, 2022
Characters

Beyond the Anthropocentric: When Plants Become Literary Characters

By Coco Picard  August 18, 2022
Book Reviews You Need to Read

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks  August 18, 2022
Book Dreams

Why Her Intensely Complicated and Complex Life Made Colette a Great Writer

By Book Dreams  August 18, 2022
Childhood

On Writing About Childhood, That Most Precious, Precarious Time

Sadie Jones Follows the Lead of Her Young Protagonists

By Sadie Jones  August 18, 2022
Open Form

Ingrid Rojas Contreras on Watching a Film About Memory Loss While Experiencing Memory Loss

By Open Form  August 18, 2022
Keen On

What Does the Carlos Ghosn Story Tell Us About Contemporary Japan?

By Keen On  August 18, 2022
Keen On

How Covid Compounded All the Best and Worst Things About the America of the 2020s

By Keen On  August 18, 2022
Keen On

The Real Story of Interest: How Low Interest Rates Are Bad For Everyone (Except Central Bankers)

Edward Chancellor in Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On  August 18, 2022
The Writing Life

Sidik Fofana on Balancing Shyness with Being in the Public Eye

By Sidik Fofana  August 17, 2022
Ursa

The Life and Stories of Diane Oliver

By Ursa   August 17, 2022
Climate Crisis

What a New Translation of Beowulf Says About Extinction

By Lydia Pyne  August 18, 2022
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