• Craft and Advice

    Trauma

    Veronica Esposito on the Book That Changed Her Life

    By Veronica Esposito  July 9, 2020
    Art and Politics

    ‘Have You Considered Socialism?’ Or, The Politics of Fictional Characters

    By Andrew Martin  July 8, 2020
    Memoir

    I Wrote My Memoir for the Same Reasons I Went to the Shooting Range

    By Lacy Crawford  July 8, 2020
    Close Reading

    On Saul Bellow’s Celebration of the Messy and Manic

    By Brian Castleberry  July 7, 2020
    On Identity

    Writing My Own “Indian-American Novel” Meant Looking to California

    By Sameer Pandya  July 7, 2020
    The Writing Life

    Lynn Steger Strong Wants You to Look Harder

    By Brian Gresko  July 6, 2020
    Poets

    Even Seamus Heaney
    Made Mistakes

    By Erica McAlpine  July 6, 2020
    Writing Advice

    Every Great Writer is a Great Deceiver: Vladimir Nabokov’s Best Writing Advice

    By Emily Temple  July 2, 2020
    On Racism

    To Poets of Color Whose Work Has Been Called ‘Healing’

    By Shayla Lawson  July 1, 2020
    Mathematics

    Why Do Some Mathematicians Think They’re Poets?

    By Susan D’Agostino  July 1, 2020
    Speculative fiction

    In Praise of the Dream-Logic of Speculative Fiction

    By Sophie MacKintosh  June 30, 2020
    Photography

    How Photographing a Dumb Paper Bag Led to Writing
    a Novel

    By Anna Cox  June 26, 2020
    Flying

    How Flight Embodies Our Deepest Yearning

    By Richard Farrell  June 25, 2020
    Writing Conferences

    Wandering Through Literary Lisbon in Search of Pessoa’s Disquiet

    By Thomas Swick  June 24, 2020
    Language

    I Can’t Believe Readers Are Still Getting Upset Over F*cking Swearing

    By Amy Poeppel  June 22, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Someone is Wrong on the Internet: A Study in Pandemic Distraction

    By Irina Dumitrescu  June 19, 2020
    The Art of the List

    Emily Temple on Translating a Decade of Internet Writing into a Debut Novel

    By Emily Temple  June 16, 2020
    Reading Lists

    Changing Me to We: We Should All Try Writing in the First Person Plural

    By Sharon Harrigan  June 12, 2020
    Literary History

    How Do You Write About a Woman Who Loathed the Spotlight?

    By Alice Miller  June 11, 2020
    Poets

    On the Radical Afterlives of William Wordsworth

    By Jonathan Bate  June 10, 2020
    Food Writing

    In Praise of Digression, Both Literary and Culinary

    By Thom Eagle  June 5, 2020
    Essayists

    Sejal Shah on the Tricky Work of Giving Shape to an Essay Collection

    By Anjali Enjeti  June 1, 2020
    Gentrification

    My Detroit Novel Was Shelved Until the Millennials Came

    By Michael Zadoorian  May 29, 2020
    Women Writers

    How Mary Oppen Rewrote the Role of the Artist’s Wife

    By Abby Walthausen  May 28, 2020
    WWII

    A Feminist Vision of War, from a Long-Buried Correspondence

    By Oswyn Murray  May 28, 2020
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