• Craft and Criticism

    Dystopias

    Enigmatic Apocalypse: A Dystopian Mystery Reading List

    Claire Fuller Recommends Rumaan Alam, Margaret Atwood, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Others

     
    By Claire Fuller  June 8, 2023
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Time, Trump, and Trauma: Matt Bell on Living on a Political Mobius Strip

    By Fiction Non Fiction  June 8, 2023
    On Translation

    A Babel of Languages: Peter Constantine on the Joys of Translation and Multilingual Writing

    By Esther Allen  June 8, 2023
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  June 8, 2023
    Motherhood

    Difficult Choices, Then and Now: A Reading List of Motherhood and Adoption

    By Julia Franks  June 8, 2023
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Henry Hoke is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  June 8, 2023
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Writing Home

    “We Made This Home.” Three Homegrown Queens Authors on the Importance of Centering Marginalized Voices in the New York Novel

    By Christine Kandic Torres  June 8, 2023
    Otherppl

    Jasmin Iolani Hakes on the Many Languages of Hawai’i (Including Hula)

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  June 8, 2023
    Keen On

    Paul Goldberg on His New Cold War Mystery About Refuseniks in 1976 Moscow

    By Keen On  June 8, 2023
    The Maris Review

    S.A. Cosby on Interviewing an FBI Agent, Making Plans, and Family Relationships in All The Sinners Bleed

    In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

    By The Maris Review  June 8, 2023
    The Hub

    The Anne Carson Twitter discourse, explained in brief (which she would hate).

    By Janet Manley  June 7, 2023
    Love Objects

    Annihilation, Beauty, and Shakespeare: Is Juliet the Best Dead Girl?

    By Sophie Duncan  June 7, 2023
    What to Watch

    On the Literary Roots of Die Hard

    By Nick de Semlyen  June 7, 2023
    Rock and Roll

    Reading at Full Volume: Seven Books That Feature Rock Music

    Matthew Norman Recommends Roddy Doyle, Dawnie Walton, Nick Hornby, and More

    By Matthew Norman  June 7, 2023
    Bars

    Jon Michaud on Bar Literature, Washington Heights, and the Ideal New York City Saloon

    By Dwyer Murphy  June 7, 2023
    Family Stories

    Why Didn’t I Want My Beloved Father to Read My Memoir?

    By Martha Hodes  June 7, 2023
    Otherppl

    Jim Ruland on How Getting Sober Impacted His Creative Life

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  June 7, 2023
    Short Stories

    Everything is Connected: A Reading List of Linked Stories

    Shannon Bowring Recommends Sherwood Anderson, Elizabeth Strout, and More

    By Shannon Bowring  June 7, 2023
    Damian Barr's Literary Salon

    Alice Ryan Reads from Her Debut Novel There’s Been a Little Incident

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  June 7, 2023
    Summer reading

    The Ultimate Summer 2023 Reading List

    By Emily Temple  June 6, 2023
    Criticism

    How the Essay and the Novel Inform and Influence Each Other

    By Jane Smiley  June 6, 2023
    Anthropology

    Is Ice America’s Most Literary Element?

    Amy Brady on a Particularly American Obsession

    By Amy Brady  June 6, 2023
    Talk Easy

    Hilton Als on Why Joan Didion and James Baldwin Stand Side-by-Side on His Bookshelf

    By Talk Easy  June 6, 2023
    On Writing

    It’s Okay to Have a Love/Hate Relationship With Your Writing

    By Katie Williams  June 6, 2023
    Keen On

    Jordan Crandall on the Appropriate Literature For Our New Age of Superintelligence

    By Keen On  June 7, 2023
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