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When Plants Attack! Benjamin Percy on the Terror of Green Things

When Plants Attack! Benjamin Percy on the Terror of Green Things

The Author of The Unfamiliar Garden Shows His Work

By Benjamin Percy | February 10, 2022

“How on Earth Do You Judge Books?” Susan Choi and Oscar Villalon on the Story Behind Literary Awards

“How on Earth Do You Judge Books?” Susan Choi and Oscar Villalon on the Story Behind Literary Awards

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | February 10, 2022

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

Merve Emre on Love in Ulysses, Frank Guan on Chuck Klosterman’s Ode to the 90s, and More

By Book Marks | February 10, 2022

How Reading John McPhee’s Book on Tennis Helped Me Write About Skateboarding

How Reading John McPhee’s Book on Tennis Helped Me Write About Skateboarding

Jonathan Russell Clark Finds Better Ways to Describe the Action

By Jonathan Russell Clark | February 9, 2022

Megan Walsh and Rosie Blau on the Nuanced Literary Voices in China

Megan Walsh and Rosie Blau on the Nuanced Literary Voices in China

This Week on Underreported with Nicholas Lemann
from Columbia Global Reports

By Underreported with Nicholas Lemann | February 9, 2022

Martin Puchner on the Climate Lessons from the <em>Epic of Gilgamesh</em>

Martin Puchner on the Climate Lessons from the Epic of Gilgamesh

“How should we humans narrate our self-made climate disaster?”

By Martin Puchner | February 9, 2022

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On Clarence Major’s Enduring Portrait of the Blues, Dirty Bird Blues

By Yusef Komunyakaa | February 9, 2022

Some Fundamental Principles for Writing Great Sex

By Bee Sacks | February 8, 2022

Jean Rhys’ Women on the Margins: On the Perpetual Resonance of Voyage in the Dark

By Imogen Crimp | February 8, 2022

The Voice of the Sea Speaks to the Soul: </br>On Kate Chopin’s <em>The Awakening</em>

The Voice of the Sea Speaks to the Soul:
On Kate Chopin’s The Awakening

An 1899 Review of Chopin’s Iconic Early Feminist Novel

By Book Marks | February 8, 2022

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

Featuring Gal Beckerman, Karen Cheung, and More!

By Teddy Wayne | February 8, 2022

20 new books hitting shelves this week.

20 new books hitting shelves this week.

By Katie Yee | February 8, 2022

Weird Short Story Writers for Strange Times

Weird Short Story Writers for Strange Times

Jason Ockert on Authors That Engage the Unexpected

By Jason Ockert | February 7, 2022

Tara Westover on Rachel Cusk, Jennifer Egan, and <em>Madame Bovary</em>

Tara Westover on Rachel Cusk, Jennifer Egan, and Madame Bovary

Rapid-fire book recs from the author of Educated

By Book Marks | February 7, 2022

Lauren Groff on Yūko Tsushima’s Quietly Defiant Sensualities

Lauren Groff on Yūko Tsushima’s Quietly Defiant Sensualities

On Woman Running in the Mountains

By Lauren Groff | February 7, 2022

Is <em>Wonder Boys</em> the Best-Ever Onscreen Depiction of a Writer?

Is Wonder Boys the Best-Ever Onscreen Depiction of a Writer?

Ryan Chapman Revisits the Brilliance of the 2000 Adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Novel

By Ryan Chapman | February 4, 2022

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