• Craft and Criticism

    Gun violence

    Modern Gun Ownership is Just Another Consumer Fantasy About Empowerment

    By Alex Trimble Young  September 9, 2024
    In Conversation

    Anna Marie Tendler on Self-Doubt, Hospitals, and Living on Her Own Terms

    By Cat Marnell  September 9, 2024
    Deafness

    Silence is Power: Sara Nović on Joanne Greenberg’s In This Sign

    By Sara Nović  September 9, 2024
    On Poetry

    Dunya Mikhail Talks Mythology, Translating Her Own Poetry, and Exploring the Past Through Objects

    By Literary Hub  September 9, 2024
    Write-minded

    Brontez Purnell on Staying Unclassifiable

    By Write-minded   September 9, 2024
    First Draft

    Jessica Shattuck on Idealism, Aging, and Outlines

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 9, 2024
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  September 6, 2024
    The Craft of Writing

    Six Writers on Getting Words on the Page

    By Literary Hub  September 6, 2024
    Love and Romance

    What T.S. Eliot’s Letters to Emily Hale Reveal About the Poet’s Romantic Past

    By Sara Fitzgerald  September 6, 2024
    African Diaspora

    Writing Between Worlds: Navigating My African and American Identities on the Page

    By Itoro Bassey  September 6, 2024
    Mothers and Daughters

    Poetry and Painting: Visualizing Verse on the Page and the Canvas

    By Cynthia Zarin  September 6, 2024
    On Poetry

    An Ode to the Ode: Lory Bedikian on How the Form Helped Her Grieve and Grow

    By Lory Bedikian  September 6, 2024
    In Conversation

    American Nightmare: Alice Driver on the Immigrants Who Risked Their Lives at a Meatpacking Plant During Covid

    By Sarah Viren  September 5, 2024
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  September 5, 2024
    On Teaching

    Toward a More Generous Pedagogy

    By Michele Herman  September 5, 2024
    Writing Place

    Letting Places Grow Like Characters: Transforming Your Hometown into a Fictional World

    By Shannon Bowring  September 5, 2024
    Plot

    “A Word About a Word Addressed to a Word.” On Embracing the Fictiveness of Fiction

    By Maureen Sun  September 5, 2024
    Am I the Literary Asshole?

    I Think Memoirs Nowadays Are Just Completely Self-Involved: Am I the Literary Asshole?

    By Kristen Arnett  September 5, 2024
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Alissa Quart on the Dangerous Lie of American Bootstrap Narratives

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 5, 2024
    In Conversation

    Rachel Kushner on Crafting a Philosophical Spy Novel For an Age of Environmental Anxiety

    By Jane Ciabattari  September 4, 2024
    Mindfulness

    Building Another Kind of Peace: How Poetry Help Can Calm Our Tumultuous Spirits

    By Megan Pinto  September 4, 2024
    literary criticism

    Poetic Prankster: On Rudyard Kipling’s Boundary-Blurring Satire of Bureaucracy

    By Priyasha Mukhopadhyay  September 4, 2024
    Language

    How Our Diet and Culinary Heritage Informs the Way We Speak

    By Iheoma Nwachukwu  September 4, 2024
    On Translation

    How Arabic Translations of Ancient Greek Texts Started a New Scientific Revolution

    By Josephine Quinn  September 4, 2024
    Windham-Campbell Prizes

    Kathryn Scanlan on Joseph Mitchell’s Joe Gould’s Secret

    By Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast   September 4, 2024
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