• Craft and Criticism

    Disability

    What is it Like to Be a Blind Writer Writing for Sighted Readers?

    By Jessica Powers  April 28, 2022
    Inspiration

    Susan Straight on Louise Erdrich and the Characters Who Haven’t Left Our Dreams

    By Susan Straight  April 28, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah and Sequoia Nagamatsu on Affirming and Subverting Pop Culture in Fiction

    By Fiction Non Fiction  April 28, 2022
    The Maris Review

    “Hypocrisy is Us.” Chantal V. Johnson on Feminism and Misogynoir

    By The Maris Review  April 28, 2022
    Chronic Pain

    How to Write a Pain Book

    By Lisa Levy  April 28, 2022
    Reading Lists

    The Real-Life Heroines of an Outrageous Era: A Gilded Age Reading List

    By Maya Rodale  April 28, 2022
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  April 28, 2022
    Open Form

    Maybe Don’t Try to Play the Withnail & I Drinking Game

    By Open Form  April 28, 2022
    Oral Tradition

    Translating the Magical Imperfection of Oral Tradition to the Page

    By Vaishnavi Patel  April 28, 2022
    Thresholds

    Armadillos Don’t Have Fangs: Jeff VanderMeer on Our Dangerous Disconnect from Nature

    By Thresholds   April 27, 2022
    Poetry

    The Last Poems of Les Murray

    By Les Murray  April 27, 2022
    Audiobooks

    AudioFile’s Best
    Audiobooks of April

    By Book Marks  April 27, 2022
    Feminism

    There is a bell hooks Book for Every Season of Life

    By Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah  April 27, 2022
    The Writing Life

    Sara Baume on the Uncanny Feeling of Discovering a Book with the Same Title as Her Own

    By Sara Baume  April 27, 2022
    NewberyTart

    Kyle Lukoff on Book Bans and Letting Queer Books Just Be Books

    By NewberyTart   April 27, 2022
    Otherppl

    Caren Beilin on (Incidentally) Writing a Funny Book

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  April 27, 2022
    Ukraine

    “Spring’s begun dividing her storks and cranes among us.” New Poetry from Ukraine by Natalia Beltchenko

    By Literary Hub  April 26, 2022
    new books tuesday

    20 new books being published today.

    By Katie Yee  April 26, 2022
    Morality

    Was George Eliot Wrong to Think Books Could Make People Better?

    By Pamela Erens  April 26, 2022
    Artists

    “I Know You Understand.” A Letter Across Time from Celia Paul to Fellow Artist Gwen John

    By Celia Paul  April 26, 2022
    Literary Criticism

    Diving Into the “Uncanny Despair” of the Cruise Ship Narrative

    By Lara Williams  April 26, 2022
    Lit Century

    Just How Depressing is Good Morning, Midnight?

    By Lit Century   April 26, 2022
    On Writing

    Writing a Novel About a Half-Remembered Place, with the Help of Google Street View

    By Soon Wiley  April 26, 2022
    Restaurants

    “Eat, Then Write!” Notes From Over a Decade of Restaurant Criticism

    By Michelle Huneven  April 26, 2022
    Classic Reviews

    “James Baldwin writes down to nobody.” Read Langston Hughes’ 1958 Review of Notes of a Native Son

    By Book Marks  April 26, 2022
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