Writing With “Sprezz.” On the Art of Saying Just Enough

Writing With “Sprezz.” On the Art of Saying Just Enough

Magdalena Zyzak Wonders If It’s Possible to Craft Effortlessly Cool Prose

By Magdalena Zyzak | May 7, 2024

Colm Tóibín! Jamaica Kincaid plus Kara Walker! Lily Dancyger! 27 new books out today.

Colm Tóibín! Jamaica Kincaid plus Kara Walker! Lily Dancyger! 27 new books out today.

By Gabrielle Bellot | May 7, 2024

What Latin American Literature Can Teach the Current Leaders of Latin America

What Latin American Literature Can Teach the Current Leaders of Latin America

Ariel Dorfman Has Some Recommendations for Culturally Illiterate Presidents and Autocrats

By Ariel Dorfman | May 6, 2024

A Daughter Becomes a Mother: On Inhabiting Both Roles in Fiction and in Life

A Daughter Becomes a Mother: On Inhabiting Both Roles in Fiction and in Life

Heidi Reimer: “A mother is also a daughter. A daughter may eventually become a mother. Then, forever, she is both."

By Heidi Reimer | May 6, 2024

How Jon Fosse Teaches Us to Acknowledge Our Own Vulnerability

How Jon Fosse Teaches Us to Acknowledge Our Own Vulnerability

Sarah Cameron Sunde on Translating the Nobel Laureate's Complex Silences for American Audiences

By Sarah Cameron Sunde | May 6, 2024

On Memoir, Permission, and the Thorny Terrain of Writing About Family

On Memoir, Permission, and the Thorny Terrain of Writing About Family

Jane Wong: “My father wrote half of me into being, I suppose. My mother wrote the other half.”

By Jane Wong | May 6, 2024

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Steve Almond on the Magic and the Craft of Storytelling

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Claire Jiménez on the Hardest Emotion to Write

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Leah Hunt-Hendrix and Astra Taylor on Solidarity, Change, and Our Interconnected World

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In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | May 2, 2024

Finding a Home in Stories: 10 New Children’s Books to Read in May

Finding a Home in Stories: 10 New Children’s Books to Read in May

Caroline Carlson Recommends Matt Hunt, Julie Flett, Vera Brosgol, and More

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5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

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“Kafka seems both genius and ingenue, and the contradiction brings him closer to us.”

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I Don’t Want to Talk to My Coworker About Their Stupid Writing: Am I the Literary Asshole?

I Don’t Want to Talk to My Coworker About Their Stupid Writing: Am I the Literary Asshole?

Kristen Arnett Answers Your Awkward Questions About Bad Bookish Behavior

By Kristen Arnett | May 2, 2024

Professors, Priests, Provosts, Manholes, and More: 7 Poetry Books to Read This May

Professors, Priests, Provosts, Manholes, and More: 7 Poetry Books to Read This May

Rebecca Morgan Frank Recommends Catherine Barnett, Jeremy Michael Clark, Ann Jäderlund, and More

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Boel Westin on Tove Jansson

Boel Westin on Tove Jansson

From The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

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Paul Auster has died at age 77.

Paul Auster has died at age 77.

By Jonny Diamond | May 1, 2024

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