• Craft and Criticism

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    Searching For Home with Samuel Beckett

    By Ken Babstock  January 4, 2023
    On Writing

    Why I Had to Get Older to Write About Youth

    By Allegra Goodman  January 4, 2023
    Historical Fiction

    On Transforming Oral History Into Historical Fiction

    By Aanchal Malhotra  January 4, 2023
    On Craft

    On Authenticity, Research, and Writing From the Diaspora

    By V.V. Ganeshananthan  January 4, 2023
    First Draft

    Chris Belcher on Blurring the Lines Between Sex Work and Academia

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 4, 2023
    Otherppl

    “It Was Like Jumping from a Cliff.” Dorthe Nors on Taking Quantum Leaps and Buying a House

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  January 4, 2023
    Keen On

    The Tech Community Needs To Be Humble to Survive What Will Be a Challenging 2023

    By Keen On  January 4, 2023
    Keen On

    Remembering a London of 1946 in which Fearsome Female Gangsters Ran the Show

    By Keen On  January 4, 2023
    Keen On

    The Ponzi Boys: What Makes Bernie Madoff and Sam Bankman-Fried the Same Type of Monstrous Human-Being?

    By Keen On  January 4, 2023
    new books tuesday

    12 new books to kick off your 2023 reading.

    By Katie Yee  January 3, 2023
    Grief

    How Zora Neale Hurston’s Study of Hoodoo Helped Me Grieve

    By Tracey Rose Peyton  January 3, 2023
    Film and TV

    Thank You for Being a Friend: Lessons in Writing and Life from The Golden Girls

    By Parini Shroff  January 3, 2023
    Read This Watch That

    What to Read Before and After Seeing James Baldwin Abroad

    By Literary Hub  January 3, 2023
    Ukraine

    “My Ithaca Burned Down, Too.” A Letter from a Teenage Joycean and Ukrainian Refugee

    By José Vergara  January 3, 2023
    First Draft

    Peter Orner on Looking for “Solace in Remembering” and His Pursuit of Chronology

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   January 3, 2023
    Writers in Conversation

    Susanne Pari on Iran’s Rich History of Feminist Rebellion

    By Jane Ciabattari  January 3, 2023
    Write-minded

    Getting Reinspired to Write… Again… For the New Year!

    By Write-minded   January 3, 2023
    Keen On

    Why Justice for Animals Means Eliminating the Word “Pet” and Perhaps Even Giving Citizenship to Other Species

    By Keen On  January 3, 2023
    Literary Criticism

    Past Winners of the Baillie Gifford Prize Reflect on Their Year in Reading

    By Literary Hub  January 1, 2023
    Keen On

    Frank Smyth: Don’t Shoot Me, I’m Only the Messenger: Why the Bad 2022 News About Gun Proliferation and Violence in America Will Probably Only Get Worse in 2023

    By Keen On  December 31, 2022
    Keen On

    Why the “Evil” Russian Invasion of Ukraine Will Only End When the West Arms Ukraine With Missiles That Can Reach Russian Cities

    By Keen On  December 31, 2022
    Keen On

    How to Escape the Culture-War Paranoia That Has Infected American Politics Since the Sixties

    By Keen On  December 31, 2022
    Keen On

    Why 2022 Was a Good Year For American Liberals Fighting Against the Fundamentalism of Both Left- and Right-Wing Intolerance

    By Keen On  December 31, 2022
    Keen On

    How to Read 100 Books in 2023 Without Going to Live in a Library or a Bookstore

    By Keen On  December 31, 2022
    Keen On

    The Middle East in 2022: Iran, Israel, Turkey, the Gulf, and the Other Asymmetries of a Multi-Polar Region

    By Keen On  December 30, 2022
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