On Beauty and Its Opposite: Writing Toward Aesthetic Force 

On Beauty and Its Opposite: Writing Toward Aesthetic Force 

Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante on the Importance of the Singular Image

By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante | July 18, 2025

Surrendering Logic: On Using Magical Realism to Explore Climate Grief

Surrendering Logic: On Using Magical Realism to Explore Climate Grief

Emily Buchanan Rethinks Our Relationship with the Planet in Life and Art

By Emily Buchanan | July 18, 2025

Chloe Michelle Howarth on How to End a Piece of Writing

Chloe Michelle Howarth on How to End a Piece of Writing

“After the last page, it’s as much their story as it is mine.”

By Chloe Michelle Howarth | July 18, 2025

Fail More, Fail Better: On Writing a Novel Without Knowing or Planning Anything

Fail More, Fail Better: On Writing a Novel Without Knowing or Planning Anything

How Issa Quincy Delights in the Tension of Drafting Through Uncertainty

By Issa Quincy | July 16, 2025

Patricia J. Williams on Martha S. Jones's <em>The Trouble of Color</em>

Patricia J. Williams on Martha S. Jones's The Trouble of Color

In Conversation with Michael Kelleher for the Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast

By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast | July 16, 2025

What Age-Gap Relationships Reveal About Power, Sex, Love, and Desire

What Age-Gap Relationships Reveal About Power, Sex, Love, and Desire

Hattie Williams on Novels by Kirsten Reed, Coco Mellors, Jenny Erpenbeck, and More

By Hattie Williams | July 14, 2025

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Even Better the Second (or Third, or Fourth...) Time: In Praise of Re-Reading

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Robert Macfarlane on Crossing the Terrain

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Jeff Hiller on The Celebrity Memoir

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Writing Advice and Literary Wisdom from the Great E.B. White

Writing Advice and Literary Wisdom from the Great E.B. White

“I think writing is mainly work.”

By Sam Weller | July 11, 2025

Irenosen Okojie on Creating New Mythologies

Irenosen Okojie on Creating New Mythologies

In Praise of the Excitement of Reinterpretation

By Irenosen Okojie | July 11, 2025

Genre is a Container, Not a Cage, a Tool, Not a Limitation

Genre is a Container, Not a Cage, a Tool, Not a Limitation

Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante on the Importance Writing Outside Your Comfort Zone

By Matthew Clark Davison and Alice LaPlante | July 11, 2025

War, Confession, Political Reimagining: Five Essential Books by Kenyan Authors

War, Confession, Political Reimagining: Five Essential Books by Kenyan Authors

On the Occasion of Nairobi Litfest Wanjeri Gakuru Recommends Joan Thatiah, Michelle Angwenyi, Billy Kahora, and More

By Wanjeri Gakuru | July 11, 2025

Edmund White: Remembering a Doyen of LGBTQ+ Literature and His Mentorship

Edmund White: Remembering a Doyen of LGBTQ+ Literature and His Mentorship

Michael T. Luongo on the Loss of a Great Writer and Mentor

By Michael T. Luongo | July 11, 2025

Three Earphones-Award Winners from AudioFile

Three Earphones-Award Winners from AudioFile

this week on AudioFile's BEHIND THE MIC

By Behind the Mic | July 11, 2025

If You Use AI in Your Writing YOU Are the Literary Asshole

If You Use AI in Your Writing YOU Are the Literary Asshole

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About (Very) Bad Literary Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | July 10, 2025

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