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Writing Ugly: Kirsty Gunn on Novelist Rosalind Belben’s Unappealing Appeal

Writing Ugly: Kirsty Gunn on Novelist Rosalind Belben’s Unappealing Appeal

“This writer wants to show us that the ugly side of life is life’s necessary hemisphere.”

By Kirsty Gunn | February 5, 2024

A Poet Is a Poet Is a Poet: Ed Simon on the Significance of Gertrude Stein’s Subversive Poems

A Poet Is a Poet Is a Poet: Ed Simon on the Significance of Gertrude Stein’s Subversive Poems

Remembering the Queer Modernist Poet on Her Sesquicentennial

By Ed Simon | February 5, 2024

Camp Over Tragedy: On Henry Van Dyke’s Farcical, Irreverent Novel of Black Gay Life in Mid-Century America

Camp Over Tragedy: On Henry Van Dyke’s Farcical, Irreverent Novel of Black Gay Life in Mid-Century America

Erik Wood Considers His Uncle’s “Ladies of the Rachmaninoff Eyes”

By Erik Wood | February 5, 2024

Ingrid Rojas Contreras on How Stories Pass Through Generations

Ingrid Rojas Contreras on How Stories Pass Through Generations

From the Write-minded Podcast, Hosted by Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner

By Memoir Nation | February 5, 2024

Rick Bass on What Hunting Taught Hemingway About Writing

Rick Bass on What Hunting Taught Hemingway About Writing

”Death, and learning how to end a story: again, the woods made him into a writer.”

By Rick Bass | February 2, 2024

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“She has found a way to tell a story that is artful, and humane, in the midst of disaster.”

By Book Marks | February 2, 2024

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

A Rich But Rare Genre: Exploring Islamic Historical Fiction

By Jamila Ahmed | February 2, 2024

Matthew Salesses! V (Eve Ensler!) Doomsday cults! 26 books out in paperback this February.

By Gabrielle Bellot | February 2, 2024

Fictionalizing Real Trauma as a Means of Healing

By Chris Cander | February 2, 2024

Against Disruption: On the Bulletpointization of Books

Against Disruption: On the Bulletpointization of Books

Maris Kreizman Wonders Why Tech Bros Think They Can “Save” Something They Don’t Even Like?

By Maris Kreizman | February 1, 2024

Complex Nostalgia for a Bygone Era: Alex Auder on Her Chelsea Hotel Childhood

Complex Nostalgia for a Bygone Era: Alex Auder on Her Chelsea Hotel Childhood

Amanda Chemeche Talks to the Author of “Don’t Call Me Home”

By Amanda Chemeche | February 1, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand: What Diana Khoi Nguyen is Reading Now and Next

The Annotated Nightstand: What Diana Khoi Nguyen is Reading Now and Next

Featuring Jennifer Ackerman, jos charles, and Jenny Erpenbeck

By Diana Arterian | February 1, 2024

Glenn North on Kansas City’s Jazz, Poetry, and Barbeque

Glenn North on Kansas City’s Jazz, Poetry, and Barbeque

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | February 1, 2024

Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media

Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media

“The entire measure of someone's commitment is how much they post about their commitment.”

By Rebecca Solnit | January 31, 2024

January’s Best Reviewed Fiction

January’s Best Reviewed Fiction

Featuring New Titles by Álvaro Enrigue, Kaveh Akbar, Hisham Matar, Marie-Helene Bertino, and Kiley Reid

By Book Marks | January 31, 2024

Landlord, Teacher, Writer: Brandi Wells on Learning to Separate Themself From Their Job(s)

Landlord, Teacher, Writer: Brandi Wells on Learning to Separate Themself From Their Job(s)

“Reframing work is an ongoing and sometimes impossible-seeming process.”

By Brandi Wells | January 31, 2024

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