• Craft and Criticism

    Thresholds

    “Dialogue is Embarrassing.” Sarah Manguso on Finally Writing a Novel

    By Thresholds   February 16, 2022
    Book Marks Questionnaire

    Alex McElroy on R.L. Stine, Casey Plett, and a masterclass of self-deception

    By Book Marks  February 16, 2022
    Classics

    How Lewis Carroll Built a World Where Nothing Needs to Make Sense

    By Erin Morgenstern  February 16, 2022
    Motherhood

    Deeply Flawed Mother Figures of Literature: A Reading List

    By Mary Kuryla  February 16, 2022
    Keen On

    Roni Cohen-Sandler on Raising Self-Reliant Teenage Girls in the Age of the Internet

    By Keen On  February 16, 2022
    Libraries

    American Literature is a History of the Nation’s Libraries

    By Ilan Stavans  February 16, 2022
    Harlem Renaissance

    On Jessie Redmon Fauset, the Harlem Renaissance Writer Long Overdue for a Resurgence

    By Morgan Jerkins  February 16, 2022
    Keen On

    Eric Pliner on What To Do When the Algorithm Doesn’t Have the Answer

    By Keen On  February 16, 2022
    Keen On

    Garrett Hongo on His Audio Obsession

    By Keen On  February 16, 2022
    The Hub

    15 new books to love this week.

    By Katie Yee  February 15, 2022
    Cooking

    “We Get to Be Young Only Once.” On My Life-Changing Discovery of Laurie Colwin

    By Kim Fay  February 15, 2022
    Murder

    On the Feminine Urge to Murder

    By Heather O'Neill  February 15, 2022
    Literary Criticism

    The Unspeakable Through the Diminutive: Read a 1986 Review of Maus

    By Book Marks  February 15, 2022
    I'm a Writer But

    Leigh Stein on Writing a Pandemic Time Capsule

    By I'm a Writer But   February 15, 2022
    So Many Damn Books

    Why Sara Gran Self-Published After Years in the Book Industry

    By So Many Damn Books  February 15, 2022
    Keen On

    Amy Webb on How Synthetic Biology Will Change Our Lives

    By Keen On  February 15, 2022
    Reading Lists

    Qualities of Magic: On Books You’ll Keep Coming Back To

    By Dr. Kate Gale  February 15, 2022
    Keen On

    Jason Pack on the Conflict in Libya as an Example of Geopolitical Failure

    By Keen On  February 15, 2022
    Keen On

    Jeff Rosenblum on How Brands Can Grow Exponentially and Create Communities

    By Keen On  February 15, 2022
    What to Watch

    In the Resurgence of Folk Horror, We Are the Villains

    By Michelle Nijhuis  February 14, 2022
    Queer History

    Grace Lavery’s Reading List of Queer Treasures

    By Grace Lavery  February 14, 2022
    The Writing Life

    What Science Journalism Taught Me About Writing Fiction

    By Sara Goudarzi  February 14, 2022
    On Love

    The Loyal, the Requited, the Tender: Kathryn Schulz on the Pleasures of Love’s Middle

    By Kathryn Schulz  February 14, 2022
    First Draft

    Anahid Nersessian’s Close Reading of Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 14, 2022
    Adoption

    “The Bittersweet Joys.” Five Books That Center Asian Voices in Adoption Narratives

    By Lyn Liao Butler  February 14, 2022
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