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Ling Ma: Why Every Story Comes From an Entry Point of Wish Fulfillment

Ling Ma: Why Every Story Comes From an Entry Point of Wish Fulfillment

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | October 13, 2022

A.M. Homes on Being—For Better or Worse—“a Very American Writer”

A.M. Homes on Being—For Better or Worse—“a Very American Writer”

The Author of The Unfolding in Conversation with Phil Klay

By Literary Hub | October 13, 2022

Poetry and Social Class: Robert Pinsky on His Many Readings of Robert Lowell

Poetry and Social Class: Robert Pinsky on His Many Readings of Robert Lowell

“A book I didn’t like, and for years ignored, had opened new possibilities for people I admired.”

By Robert Pinsky | October 13, 2022

Anxiety and Irresponsibility: What Is to Be Done About Literary Moralism?

Anxiety and Irresponsibility: What Is to Be Done About Literary Moralism?

A. Natasha Joukovsky on the Rampant Conflation of Fiction and History

By A. Natasha Joukovsky | October 13, 2022

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Goop, Leonard Cohen, Predators, Dinosaurs, and More

By Book Marks | October 13, 2022

The Other World, and This One: On Transcendence and Immanence in the Work of Victoria Chang and Yusef Komunyakaa

The Other World, and This One: On Transcendence and Immanence in the Work of Victoria Chang and Yusef Komunyakaa

Philip Metres Considers the Borders Between the Earthly and the Divine

By Philip Metres | October 13, 2022

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How Dostoevsky’s Classic Has Shaped Russia’s War in Ukraine, with Explaining Ukraine’s Tetyana Ogarkova and Volodymyr Yermolenko

By Fiction Non Fiction | October 13, 2022

WATCH: Lynn Melnick and Hafizah Augustus Geter Talk All Things Dolly Parton

By The Virtual Book Channel | October 13, 2022

Life in a Distant Land: A Conversation with Poet Kathleen Rooney

By Robert Puccinelli | October 12, 2022

Endnotes on Ghosts: Patrick Cottrell, Lynn Steger Strong, and More Voices from <em>Thresholds</em>

Endnotes on Ghosts: Patrick Cottrell, Lynn Steger Strong, and More Voices from Thresholds

Hosted by Jordan Kisner and Drew Broussard

By Thresholds | October 12, 2022

Lydia Millet on Long Extinct Creatures and Boundaries Real and Imaginary

Lydia Millet on Long Extinct Creatures and Boundaries Real and Imaginary

Jane Ciabattari Talks to the Author of Dinosaurs

By Jane Ciabattari | October 11, 2022

How Women Writers Speculated Fictional Futures Free From Patriarchal Control

How Women Writers Speculated Fictional Futures Free From Patriarchal Control

Lisa Yaszek on the Feminist History of Science Fiction

By Lisa Yaszek | October 11, 2022

When Less Is More: On Writing Sex and Violence

When Less Is More: On Writing Sex and Violence

Reine Arcache Melvin Explores the Twin Roots of Horror and Desire

By Reine Arcache Melvin | October 11, 2022

Shelf Talkers: What the Booksellers Are Reading at Boswell Book Company

Shelf Talkers: What the Booksellers Are Reading at Boswell Book Company

Favorites From One of Milwaukees Great Bookstores

By Literary Hub | October 11, 2022

20 new books to get you through the week.

20 new books to get you through the week.

By Katie Yee | October 11, 2022

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

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

Featuring New Titles by Celeste Ng, Annie Ernaux, Elizabeth McCracken, Orhan Pamuk, and More

By Book Marks | October 7, 2022

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