• Craft and Criticism

    Jazz

    Why Jazz? Laura Warrell on Devotion to a “Dying” Art Form

    By Laura Warrell  September 20, 2022
    Classic Novels

    Maggie O’Farrell on Elspeth Barker’s Modern Scottish Classic, O Caledonia

    By Maggie O'Farrell  September 20, 2022
    Keen On

    Post-Realist Fiction: Why Realism Is No Longer an Adequate Novelistic Form for Describing the World

    By Keen On  September 20, 2022
    Keen On

    How Rising CO2 Is Turning Life on Earth Into a Bad Science Fiction Movie

    By Keen On  September 20, 2022
    The Writers Institute

    What Makes Things Go Right or Wrong For Novelists in Hollywood?

    By The Writers Institute  September 20, 2022
    Keen On

    Black Skinheads and Kanye West: Reflecting on the Democratic Party As the Natural Political Home of African Americans

    By Keen On  September 20, 2022
    Keen On

    A Defense of Aristocracy? How the American Morgenthau Dynasty Pursued an Ethic of Public Service

    By Keen On  September 20, 2022
    Nostalgia

    How the Trapper Keeper Shaped a Generation of Writers

    By Jess deCourcy Hinds  September 19, 2022
    In Conversation

    Exploring Spaces Between Experiences and Stories: Rachel Aviv and Chloé Cooper Jones in Conversation

    By Chloé Cooper Jones  September 19, 2022
    Fragmentary Essays

    Break Everything and Begin Again: On Fragmentation as a Form

    By Sarah Haas  September 19, 2022
    Education

    Teaching Literature in the New Culture Wars: Some Alternative Approaches

    By Deborah Appleman  September 19, 2022
    Folklore

    In Praise of the Bold, Powerful Women of Slavic Fairy Tales

    By Olesya Salnikova Gilmore  September 19, 2022
    Keen On

    Why the 9.9% Is Running Our World—and How the 91.1% Need to Fight Back Against This Aristocracy

    By Keen On  September 19, 2022
    Keen On

    Why the Next Major Civil Rights Movement Is Mental Health Activism

    By Keen On  September 19, 2022
    Keen On

    Kate Beaton on Why Her Coming-Of-Age Memoir Isn’t as “Dismal” as Some Critics Have Suggested

    By Keen On  September 19, 2022
    Write-minded

    A.M. Homes on How to Write Characters that Stick with Your Readers

    By Write-minded   September 19, 2022
    WWII

    When Collective Trauma Becomes Collective Amnesia: Reading Polina Barskova on Russia’s Myth of Itself

    By Tanya Paperny  September 16, 2022
    Books In Translation

    The Art of the Hand-Sell: Booksellers Recommend Translations

    By Katie Yee  September 16, 2022
    Reading Lists

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

    By Book Marks  September 16, 2022
    Recap

    Dwarves, the Most Ill-Served of Jackson’s Hero Races, Get an Upgrade in The Rings of Power

    By Jenna Kass and Dylan Roth  September 16, 2022
    On Craft

    Thomas C. Foster on the Seven Deadly Sins of Writing

    By Thomas C. Foster  September 16, 2022
    On Craft

    Ellen Meeropol on Writing Into the Gaps Left by Untold Family Stories

    By Ellen Meeropol  September 16, 2022
    The Literary Life

    Christopher M. Finan: How to Battle Book Banning in Your Community

    By The Literary Life  September 16, 2022
    On Writing

    When Your OCD Therapy is Also a Treatment for Writers’ Block

    By Elissa Bassist  September 16, 2022
    On Writing

    On the Myth of the Made Writer and the Madness of Emerging

    By Kailyn McCord  September 15, 2022
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