• Craft and Criticism

    Parenting

    Sweet Yet Sinister: How the Stroller Embodies Parental Hopes and Fears

    By Amanda Parrish Morgan  October 24, 2022
    On Poetry

    The Most Important Poem of the 20th Century: On T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” at 100

    By Literary Hub  October 24, 2022
    On Poetry

    How T.S. Eliot’s Therapeutic Practice Produced The Waste Land

    By David Barnes  October 24, 2022
    Write-minded

    Lan Samantha Chang on How—or Whether—to Evolve Your Aesthetic or Style

    By Write-minded   October 24, 2022
    First Draft

    “You Find a Way to Be Distinctive.” George Saunders on His Writerly Evolution

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 24, 2022
    On Poetry

    How Modern is The Waste Land, After All?

    By Alok A. Khorana  October 24, 2022
    Keen On

    Why Is Flying So Miserable These Days? And Was It Ever That Glamorous?

    By Keen On  October 24, 2022
    History of Literature

    How Was Your Ulysses?

    By History of Literature  October 24, 2022
    Storytelling

    Harold R. Johnson on How We Tell Our Own Stories

    By Harold R. Johnson  October 24, 2022
    Keen On

    Realizing History Through Fantasy Literature: Reclaiming Tolkien’s Hobbit For the Left

    By Keen On  October 24, 2022
    Keen On

    What Boeing’s 737 Max Tragedy Reveals About the Immorality of Late Stage Industrial Capitalism

    By Keen On  October 24, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Mary Karr on Navigating Memory While Writing Memoir

    By Mary Karr  October 21, 2022
    Beyond the Page

    Being American in the World We’ve Made: Ben Rhodes in Conversation with Ayad Akhtar

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  October 21, 2022
    Keen On

    How General Motors CEO Mary Barra is the Anti Elon Musk

    By Keen On  October 21, 2022
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  October 21, 2022
    Horror

    Revisiting Kier-La Janisse’s House of Psychotic Women, Ten Years Later

    By Elizabeth Horkley  October 21, 2022
    Speculative fiction

    Reimagining Folklore and Fantasy: Nine Speculative Stories from Asia and the Asian Diaspora

    By Jasmine Sawers  October 21, 2022
    The Literary Life

    David Maraniss on the Afterlife of Jim Thorpe

    By The Literary Life  October 21, 2022
    Journalism

    Veteran Reporter Margaret Sullivan’s Favorite Books About Journalism

    By Margaret Sullivan  October 21, 2022
    Magic?

    Playing with Fear: How Oracle Cards Taught Me To Ask More Honest Questions

    By Rita Zoey Chin  October 21, 2022
    Keen On

    The Simultaneously Heroic and Shameful Story of African Americans’ in World War II

    By Keen On  October 21, 2022
    Russian Imperialism

    Dear Vladimir Putin: If You’ve Read Dostoevsky, You’ve Tragically Misunderstood Him

    By Austin Ratner  October 20, 2022
    The Maris Review

    George Saunders on Experiencing the Limits of Your Own Power

    By The Maris Review  October 20, 2022
    Craft

    The Space Between Notes: What Writers Can Learn From Musicians

    By Daniel Torday  October 20, 2022
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  October 20, 2022
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