• Craft and Criticism

    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Erika T. Wurth on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Intergenerational Trauma, and Heavy Metal

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 8, 2022
    Life Advice for Book Lovers

    Life Advice for Book Lovers: “My Best Friend Has Terrible Taste in Men.”

    By Dorothea   December 8, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Evette Dionne: “Representation Isn’t Everything, But It’s Something”

    By The Maris Review  December 8, 2022
    Running

    What Running Has Taught Me About Writing (and Vice Versa)

    By Janice Obuchowski  December 8, 2022
    Criticism

    Why (Most) Critics Hated The Waste Land When It Was Published

    By Jed Rasula  December 8, 2022
    Queer Lit

    Edgy, Unapologetic, and Transgressive: 8 Books That Seek to Unsettle the Reader

    By Kevin Lambert  December 8, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    Talking to Deepti Gupta About the 2022 Best Young Adult Audiobooks

    By Behind the Mic   December 8, 2022
    The Hub

    This previously unpublished CD Wright poem is filled with beauty and sadness.

    By Jonny Diamond  December 7, 2022
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    How to Survive in Broken Worlds: Jesmyn Ward on Octavia Butler’s Empathy and Optimism

    By Jesmyn Ward  December 7, 2022
    Children's Lit

    Seasons of Change: The Children’s Books That Helped Us Get Through the Year

    By Sara B. Franklin  December 7, 2022
    Best Reviewed Books of the Year

    The Best Reviewed Fiction of 2022

    By Book Marks  December 7, 2022
    Otherppl

    Allegra Hyde on Addressing the Steps to Solve Climate Change in Her New Novel

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  December 7, 2022
    On Poetry

    Bombay and the Beats: Bridging Two Cities Through Their Poets

    By Saranya Subramanian  December 7, 2022
    Queerness

    Cherríe Moraga on Writing About Queer Motherhood

    By Cherríe Moraga  December 7, 2022
    Keen On

    How the Multi-Trillion Dollar Industrial Meat Complex is Bad For Our Species and Our Planet

    By Keen On  December 7, 2022
    Keen On

    The Most Disturbing of All Human Sins? How We Live With Other Creatures

    By Keen On  December 7, 2022
    Reading Lists

    The Darkness Within: 8 Novels About the Devil

    By Luke Dumas  December 7, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    Talking to Soneela Nankani About the 2022 Best Mystery and Suspense Audiobooks

    By Behind the Mic   December 7, 2022
    The Hub

    17 new books to invigorate your December reading.

    By Katie Yee  December 6, 2022
    What to Watch

    In The Super 8 Years, Annie Ernaux Drifts Between Domesticity and Creativity

    By Julia Sirmons  December 6, 2022
    Writers in Conversation

    Writing the Historical Mystery Novel: Jane Smiley Explains Her Process

    By Jane Ciabattari  December 6, 2022
    Lit Century

    On the Haunting Quality of Stefan Zweig’s Chess Story

    By Lit Century   December 6, 2022
    Narrative

    Dear Blank Space: A Literacy Narrative

    By Jennifer S. Cheng  December 6, 2022
    Twitterverse

    Diksha Basu: What Do You Do When You See Someone Reading Your Book in Public?

    By Twitterverse   December 6, 2022
    Write-minded

    Sarah Manguso is Not Interested in Wasting Words

    By Write-minded   December 6, 2022
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