• Craft and Criticism

    Nature Writing

    Nature Writing is Survival Writing: On Rethinking a Genre

    By Michelle Nijhuis  April 12, 2022
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  April 12, 2022
    Black History

    The High Stakes of Textbooks: On the Necessity of Complex, Inclusive History Lessons

    By Elizabeth Alexander  April 12, 2022
    So Many Damn Books

    “The Page is So Flat, and ASL is So Not.” Sara Nović on the Limitations of Prose

    By So Many Damn Books  April 12, 2022
    The Cosmic Library

    How the Hebrew Bible Poses Fundamental Questions About Language

    By The Cosmic Library   April 12, 2022
    Keen On

    Can AI Can Finally Solve the Problem of Diversity?

    By Keen On  April 12, 2022
    Storybound

    Melissa Chadburn Reads From Her Essay “The Throwaways”

    By Storybound   April 12, 2022
    The Hub

    Conservative lawmaker writes children’s book in praise of solidarity and collective action.

    By Jonny Diamond  April 11, 2022
    Shelf Talkers

    Shelf Talkers: The Bookshop in East Nashville, Tennessee

    By Literary Hub  April 11, 2022
    Desire

    The Heartbreaks and Complications of School-Age Desire: A Reading List

    By Jonathan Galassi  April 11, 2022
    Craft

    Sven Birkerts on Discovering the Story You Need To Write

    By Sven Birkerts  April 11, 2022
    First Draft

    Sarah Manguso on Getting on the Freeway, aka Writing a Novel

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   April 11, 2022
    Poetry

    How Sylvia Plath Calls Out for Connection Across Time

    By Sina Queyras  April 11, 2022
    Gardening

    Madhushree Ghosh on Food as Survival, Grief, and Liberation

    By Anjali Enjeti  April 11, 2022
    Keen On

    Maddie Anstruther and Anya Gera on Slow News and the Importance of Young Voices

    By Keen On  April 11, 2022
    Keen On

    Why Thinking Like an Economist Might Be a Form of Madness

    By Keen On  April 11, 2022
    Keen On

    How Mastering Community Requires Us to Also Master Civility

    By Keen On  April 11, 2022
    Book Marks Questionnaire

    Jeff VanderMeer on Ursula K. Le Guin, Tove Jansson, and Ottessa Moshfegh

    By Book Marks  April 11, 2022
    Civil Rights

    Blacks and Jews: Fifty-Five Years After James Baldwin’s “Negroes Are Anti-Semitic Because They’re Anti-White”

    By Jacques Berlinerblau and Terrence L. Johnson  April 9, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Ocean Vuong on Taking the Time You Need to Write

    By Literary Hub  April 8, 2022
    Ukraine

    Putin’s Attack on Ukraine is an Attack on Its Language: Poetry by Kateryna Kalytko

    By Literary Hub  April 8, 2022
    Perfume

    How Perfume Becomes an Evocative Clue for Mystery Writers

    By Megan Volpert  April 8, 2022
    Micro

    Flash Fiction and the Fear of Falling: Ross Showalter in Conversation with Kirsten Reneau

    By Micro   April 8, 2022
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  April 8, 2022
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    “Unlivable and Untenable.” Molly McGhee on the Punishing Life of Junior Publishing Employees

    By Fiction Non Fiction  April 7, 2022
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