• Craft and Criticism

    Book Design

    On the Groundbreaking Art of Bascove’s Book Covers

    By Rebecca Rego Barry  May 3, 2022
    Writing

    Lessons Learned from a Year Listening to the Fictional Octopus in My Head

    By Shelby Van Pelt  May 3, 2022
    The Cosmic Library

    Struggling with Disaster—and Language—in the Hebrew Bible

    By The Cosmic Library   May 3, 2022
    On Writing

    How the Small Moments That Haunt Us Can Form the Seeds of a Novel

    By Steve Almond  May 3, 2022
    new books tuesday

    25 new books to pick up this week.

    By Katie Yee  May 3, 2022
    Storybound

    Phil Klay Reads His Essay “The Citizen-Soldier: Moral Risk and the Modern Military”

    By Storybound   May 3, 2022
    Keen On

    How Hawks Teach Us a Different Way to Love

    By Keen On  May 3, 2022
    Keen On

    How “My Old Kentucky Home” Is a Sonic Monument to a Segregated America

    By Keen On  May 3, 2022
    What to Watch

    The Literary Film and TV You Need to Stream in May

    By Eliza Smith  May 2, 2022
    Book Design

    Jeff VanderMeer Talks to the Designers About His Book Covers

    By Jeff VanderMeer  May 2, 2022
    Russian Literature

    Searching for a Lost History in Modern-Day Russia

    By Marcia DeSanctis  May 2, 2022
    Chilean Literature

    Alejandro Zambra on Juan Emar, Whose Avant-Garde Writings Deserve Our Attention

    By Alejandro Zambra  May 2, 2022
    Interview with an Indie Pres

    Interview with an Indie Press: Grid Books

    By Literary Hub  May 2, 2022
    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    May’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

    By Book Marks  May 2, 2022
    Marriage

    Love is Space: Notes on Marriage and Creativity

    By Andrea Bajani  May 2, 2022
    The History of Literature

    What Makes Mysteries so Compelling?

    By History of Literature  May 2, 2022
    First Draft

    “Structure is Everything.” Keith O’Brien on Structuring a Nonfiction Narrative

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 2, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Alexander Chee on Staying Organized While Writing

    By Alexander Chee  April 29, 2022
    Philosophy

    Robert M. Pirsig on the Book He Wrote (And the One He Didn’t)

    By Robert M. Pirsig and Wendy K. Pirsig  April 29, 2022
    The Literary Life

    What Kind of Bookstore Browser Are You?

    By The Literary Life  April 29, 2022
    On Translation

    How the Russian and Ukrainian Languages Intersect in Eugene Vodolazkin’s Brisbane

    By Marian Schwartz  April 29, 2022
    Historical Fiction

    We Are in a Golden Age of Historical Fiction for People of Color

    By Jasmin Darznik  April 29, 2022
    Book Research

    If You Want to Inhabit the World of Your Novel, Take a Class

    By Adriana Trigiani  April 29, 2022
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  April 29, 2022
    Friendship

    On Friendship: Men in Love Who Aren’t (in Most Cases) Lovers

    By Jonathan Howland  April 29, 2022
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