Toward a Syllabus for Modern Grieving

Toward a Syllabus for Modern Grieving

From Yaa Gyasi to Joan Silber Beth Kissileff Finds Consolation in Reading

By Beth Kissileff | July 23, 2021

Translating at the Blurred Edge of Memoir and Fiction

Translating at the Blurred Edge of Memoir and Fiction

K.E. Semmel on Mathilde Walter Clark’s Lone Star

By K. E. Semmel | July 23, 2021

On <em>Freaks and Geeks</em> and Finding My Voice: How Pop Culture Shaped My Poetry

On Freaks and Geeks and Finding My Voice: How Pop Culture Shaped My Poetry

Matt Mitchell Builds His Own Intersex Canon

By Matt Mitchell | July 22, 2021

Why Yaa Gyasi Wants Us to Remember the Brain Is an Organ

Why Yaa Gyasi Wants Us to Remember the Brain Is an Organ

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | July 22, 2021

The Heteronymous Identities of Fernando Pessoa

The Heteronymous Identities of Fernando Pessoa

Richard Zenith on the Many Literary Lives of the Genius of Lisbon

By Richard Zenith | July 22, 2021

On Eileen Myles’ <em>Inferno</em>, and the “Poets Novel”

On Eileen Myles’ Inferno, and the “Poets Novel”

Cedar Sigo on Texts That Focus on the Poet, Rather Than the Poetry

By Cedar Sigo | July 22, 2021

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The Attack of Difficult Women Prose

By Gail Scott | July 22, 2021

Reginald Dwayne Betts on Living Between the Poles of Yale-Educated Lawyer and Prison-Educated Poet

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | July 21, 2021

WATCH: Zakiya Dalila Harris in Conversation with Brit Bennett

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Reading Palestinian Literature, Before and After the Nakba

Reading Palestinian Literature, Before and After the Nakba

This Week from the Reading Women Podcast

By Reading Women | July 21, 2021

Against Defanging Children’s Book Authors

Against Defanging Children’s Book Authors

This Week on the NewberyTart Podcast

By NewberyTart | July 21, 2021

Manic Pixie Dream Portrait: On <em>500 Days of Summer</em> and <em>Dorian Gray</em>.

Manic Pixie Dream Portrait: On 500 Days of Summer and Dorian Gray.

By Katie Yee | July 20, 2021

Rachel Yoder on Navigating Chronic Pain Through Storytelling

Rachel Yoder on Navigating Chronic Pain Through Storytelling

The Author of Nightbitch Considers Writing as a Somatic Practice

By Rachel Yoder | July 20, 2021

10 new books you'll want to read right now.

10 new books you'll want to read right now.

By Katie Yee | July 20, 2021

Rosecrans Baldwin on Los Angeles, Wittgenstein, and Melancholy

Rosecrans Baldwin on Los Angeles, Wittgenstein, and Melancholy

This Week on So Many Damn Books

By So Many Damn Books | July 20, 2021

Is There a More Interesting Way to Talk About the Blurry Line Between a Writer’s Life and Their Fiction?

Is There a More Interesting Way to Talk About the Blurry Line Between a Writer’s Life and Their Fiction?

Sara Martin on Legitimizing Our Lives Through the Experiences of Literary Heroes and Heroines

By Sara Martin | July 20, 2021

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