Dwyer Murphy Explains How to Build a House (in Your Novel)

Dwyer Murphy Explains How to Build a House (in Your Novel)

“I needed to know about houses—big and rambling houses, and how they alter people.”

By Dwyer Murphy | May 16, 2025

L. Frank Baum’s Literary Vision of an American Century: <em>The Wizard of Oz</em> at 125 Years

L. Frank Baum’s Literary Vision of an American Century: The Wizard of Oz at 125 Years

Ed Simon on Grifters, the Chicago World Fair, and Oz as Symbol of a Modern USA

By Ed Simon | May 16, 2025

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 Mark Twain, Ocean Vuong, Malcolm X, and More

By Book Marks | May 16, 2025

On Translating Your Own Novel *Back* Into Your Mother Tongue

On Translating Your Own Novel *Back* Into Your Mother Tongue

Hannes Barnard and Andreas Roman Talk to Jessica Powers

By Jessica Powers | May 16, 2025

You Want to Be a Better Writer? Observe Chicken Behavior

You Want to Be a Better Writer? Observe Chicken Behavior

Malia Márquez on Learning to Tend and Feed Writerly Impulses

By Malia Márquez | May 16, 2025

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“She takes her cues from writers like John Cheever, Richard Yates and Virginia Woolf, all masters of the repressed and unsayable.”

By Book Marks | May 15, 2025

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Country People
  • You Won't Get Free of It: Stories of Mothers and Daughters
  • Exit Stalin: The Soviet Union as a Civilization, 1953-1991
  • A Sudden Flicker of Light: A Revisionist History of Movies
  • It Will Come Back to You: Collected Stories
  • Cloudthief
  • Cool Machine
  • Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast
  • Beginning Middle End
  • They Stole a City: Wilmington's White Supremacist Coup and the Families Who Live with Its Legacy

I Refuse to Support My Friend’s Crappy Self-Published Novel: Am I the Asshole?

By Kristen Arnett | May 15, 2025

Monica Macansantos on Finding Her Voice and Reuniting with Her Father Through Used Books

By Monica Macansantos | May 15, 2025

Mirza Waheed on India, Pakistan, and the Literature of Partition

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 15, 2025

Here are the guest editors (and covers) for the Best American Series 2025.

Here are the guest editors (and covers) for the Best American Series 2025.

By Literary Hub | May 14, 2025

Across the Clarissa-Verse: On 100 Years of <em>Mrs. Dalloway</em>

Across the Clarissa-Verse: On 100 Years of Mrs. Dalloway

Marisa Charpentier Considers the Multitudes Contained in a Single Day in June

By Marisa Charpentier | May 14, 2025

What a Plunge! Teaching <em>Mrs. Dalloway</em> to High Schoolers in 2025

What a Plunge! Teaching Mrs. Dalloway to High Schoolers in 2025

Mia Manzulli Considers Clarissa in the Age of AI and Fractured Attention

By Mia Manzulli | May 14, 2025

Drafting <em>Mrs. Dalloway</em>: How Virginia Woolf Started Her Masterpiece

Drafting Mrs. Dalloway: How Virginia Woolf Started Her Masterpiece

“There should be some fun–”

By Mark Hussey | May 14, 2025

Against Algorithms: Why Tuning Out is an Essential Part of the Creative Process

Against Algorithms: Why Tuning Out is an Essential Part of the Creative Process

Ling Ling Huang on the Importance of Keeping True to Your Own Thoughts

By Ling Ling Huang | May 14, 2025

<em>The Cosmic Library</em> on Reflection and Refraction

The Cosmic Library on Reflection and Refraction

The Final Episode of the Dostoevsky Season

By The Cosmic Library | May 14, 2025

Neither Plot Nor Character, But... Something Else? Ten Novels with Mind-Blowing Structures

Neither Plot Nor Character, But... Something Else? Ten Novels with Mind-Blowing Structures

Lincoln Michel Recommends Alejandro Zambra, Renee Gladman, Percival Everett and More

By Lincoln Michel | May 13, 2025

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