• Craft and Criticism

    Write-minded

    A.M. Homes on How to Write Characters that Stick with Your Readers

    By Write-minded   September 19, 2022
    WWII

    When Collective Trauma Becomes Collective Amnesia: Reading Polina Barskova on Russia’s Myth of Itself

    By Tanya Paperny  September 16, 2022
    Books In Translation

    The Art of the Hand-Sell: Booksellers Recommend Translations

    By Katie Yee  September 16, 2022
    Reading Lists

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

    By Book Marks  September 16, 2022
    Recap

    Dwarves, the Most Ill-Served of Jackson’s Hero Races, Get an Upgrade in The Rings of Power

    By Jenna Kass and Dylan Roth  September 16, 2022
    On Craft

    Thomas C. Foster on the Seven Deadly Sins of Writing

    By Thomas C. Foster  September 16, 2022
    On Craft

    Ellen Meeropol on Writing Into the Gaps Left by Untold Family Stories

    By Ellen Meeropol  September 16, 2022
    The Literary Life

    Christopher M. Finan: How to Battle Book Banning in Your Community

    By The Literary Life  September 16, 2022
    On Writing

    When Your OCD Therapy is Also a Treatment for Writers’ Block

    By Elissa Bassist  September 16, 2022
    On Writing

    On the Myth of the Made Writer and the Madness of Emerging

    By Kailyn McCord  September 15, 2022
    Incarcerated Writers

    Read the Winners of American Short Fiction’s 2022 Insider Prize, Selected by Lauren Hough

    By Literary Hub  September 15, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Rachel Aviv: Why It’s Difficult to Trust Your Own Experiences of Mental Illness

    By The Maris Review  September 15, 2022
    Adaptations

    On Malcolm Lowry’s Yearslong, Fruitless Attempt to Adapt Fitzgerald’s Tender Is the Night for Film

    By Michael Melgaard  September 15, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    On Meaning and Time: Andrea Barrett on What the Past Tells Us About Today

    By Fiction Non Fiction  September 15, 2022
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Tammy Nguyễn is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  September 15, 2022
    Keen On

    How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Simultaneously Complacent and Paranoid

    By Keen On  September 15, 2022
    Keen On

    How Complicit Is Big Law in the Crimes and Misdemeanors of American Capitalism?

    By Keen On  September 15, 2022
    Keen On

    Brains, Breasts, Bowels, and Bladders: A History of the World Through Body Parts

    By Keen On  September 15, 2022
    Keen On

    We’ll Play Till We Die: The Role of Revolutionary Music in the Muslim World

    By Keen On  September 15, 2022
    The Writers Institute

    Jonathan Franzen: What Happens If We No Longer Have Bookstore Readings?

    By The Writers Institute  September 14, 2022
    What to Watch

    43 Literary Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Fall

    By Emily Temple  September 14, 2022
    18th Century Literature

    How a Group of Young Writers and Poets Revolutionized 18th-Century Literature

    By Andrea Wulf  September 14, 2022
    Journalism

    How Dealing in Facts Helps Fiction Writers Hone Their Craft

    By Tracey Lien  September 14, 2022
    Art Criticism

    Why is Writing About Art So Difficult?

    By Sara Woster  September 14, 2022
    On Race

    Chinelo Okparanta on William Styron’s Confessions of Nat Turner and Writing Across Racial Identities

    By Chinelo Okparanta  September 14, 2022
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