Do Writers Fetishize Their Tools Too Much... Or Not Enough?

Do Writers Fetishize Their Tools Too Much... Or Not Enough?

Tobias Carroll on Why We Love Our Notebooks (and Our Pens)

By Tobias Carroll | April 21, 2023

Victor Lavalle on the Truth of Family Secrets (Hint: They’re Not That Secret)

Victor Lavalle on the Truth of Family Secrets (Hint: They’re Not That Secret)

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | April 20, 2023

Why We All Need Dinner Parties in Our Lives

Why We All Need Dinner Parties in Our Lives

Natasha Feldman is a Big Proponent of Friendsday Wednesday

By Natasha Feldman | April 20, 2023

Eileen Myles on Poetry, Meat, and Mourning

Eileen Myles on Poetry, Meat, and Mourning

“The writing the poem part is easy. It’s the rest of the time that’s the problem.”

By Eileen Myles | April 20, 2023

What Kind of Pandemic Storytelling Do We Actually Need?

What Kind of Pandemic Storytelling Do We Actually Need?

Emma Staffaroni Calls for Stories About Living Through It

By Emma Staffaroni | April 20, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

“The truth may sometimes hurt, but the lies are in bed with collective death.”

By Book Marks | April 20, 2023

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • House of Day, House of Night
  • The Award
  • Daring to Be Free: Rebellion and Resistance of the Enslaved in the Atlantic World
  • Casanova 20: Or, Hot World
  • Frostlines: A Journey Through Entangled Lives and Landscapes in a Warming Arctic
  • The Six Loves of James I

Live from New York: Curtis Sittenfeld on Dating Up, Writing Funny, and How SNL and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop Are Alike

By Fiction Non Fiction | April 20, 2023

Matthew Zapruder: Revising a Poem is Like Revising Your Life

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | April 20, 2023

Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu on Sex as Escape, Being a Jerk, and “Alcohol-fueled Insanity”

By Juan Velasquez | April 20, 2023

How Messy Can a <br>Rom-Com Be?

How Messy Can a
Rom-Com Be?

Carlyn Greenwald on Queer Romance and the Bounds
of Cis-Hetero Agenda

By Carlyn Greenwald | April 20, 2023

Here are the finalists for the 2023 Young Lions Fiction Award.

Here are the finalists for the 2023 Young Lions Fiction Award.

By Janet Manley | April 19, 2023

How Annie Ernaux Captures the Spirit of Her Era Through Its Big-Box Stores

How Annie Ernaux Captures the Spirit of Her Era Through Its Big-Box Stores

In Conversation with Alison L. Strayer, the Translator of Look at the Lights, My Love

By Literary Hub | April 19, 2023

Falling in Love with a Dog and the World

Falling in Love with a Dog and the World

Ramona Ausubel on the Softness of Beasts

By Ramona Ausubel | April 19, 2023

You Can Hate Leaving Your Child, and Be Glad You Went

You Can Hate Leaving Your Child, and Be Glad You Went

“I would be a different kind of mother if I didn’t get on that plane."

By Mary Louise Kelly | April 19, 2023

Bookworm in a Chrysalis: How Language Acquisition Nourishes a Love of Literature

Bookworm in a Chrysalis: How Language Acquisition Nourishes a Love of Literature

Natasha S. on Being a Multilingual Reader and Writer

By Natasha S. and Larissa Kyzer | April 19, 2023

Kevin Chong on Finding Inspiration in Surprise

Kevin Chong on Finding Inspiration in Surprise

“Surprises are often ones you initially resist, if not outright ignore.”

By Kevin Chong | April 19, 2023

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