• Craft and Criticism

    I'm a Writer But

    Christian J. Collier on Chasing Obsessions and Crafting Poetry as Film Directing

    By I'm a Writer But   May 24, 2022
    On Memoir

    How Virginia Woolf and J.A. Baker Helped Me Write a Trans Memoir

    By Diana Goetsch  May 24, 2022
    Summer reading

    Is Summer Finally Here? 8 Books Set on the Jersey Shore

    By Katie Runde  May 24, 2022
    Keen On

    Photographing Communism(s) and What Life Really Looked Like in Cold War Eastern Europe

    By Keen On  May 24, 2022
    In Memoriam

    Remembering the Kindness and Master Storytelling of Editor and Author George Hodgman

    By Gabe Montesanti  May 24, 2022
    Keen On

    Field Notes on How to Build a Diverse Democracy in America

    By Keen On  May 24, 2022
    Keen On

    I’m the Luckiest Person in the World Because I Have Two Families, One Black and One White

    By Keen On  May 24, 2022
    Change Lab

    Jackie Amezquita on Migration, Memory and Making Art

    By Change Lab  May 24, 2022
    new books tuesday

    15 new books to help you get through the week.

    By Katie Yee  May 24, 2022
    Celebrity

    Elizabeth Hardwick on the Capable Coolness of Faye Dunaway

    By Elizabeth Hardwick  May 23, 2022
    Chinese Literature

    How Contemporary Chinese Literature Made Western Modernism Its Own

    By Yan Lianke and Carlos Rojas  May 23, 2022
    Translation

    Xu Xi on Living the Transnational Literary Life

    By Xu Xi  May 23, 2022
    Narrative

    In Praise of the Unhappy Happy Ending

    By Natalie Jenner  May 23, 2022
    First Draft

    Jeffrey Yang on the Parallels Between Wood Carving and Poetry

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 23, 2022
    Book Bans

    My Queer Life Is Not Inappropriate, and Neither Are the Books That Reflect It

    By Nicole Melleby  May 23, 2022
    Reading Lists

    Funny Books for an Unfunny World: A Reading List

    By Dennard Dayle  May 23, 2022
    In Conversation

    Marie Myung-Ok Lee on the Inevitable Slowness of Writing

    By Jimin Han  May 23, 2022
    The History of Literature

    Considering the Morals of Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling

    By History of Literature  May 23, 2022
    Poetry

    Natalie Diaz on the Mojave Language and Where English Fails Us

    By Dahr Jamail  May 20, 2022
    Language

    Naming the Unnamed: On the Many Uses of the Letter X

    By Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza  May 20, 2022
    The Literary Life

    Don Winslow Is Hopeful For the Future

    By The Literary Life  May 20, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Jonathan Lee on Hooking a Reader with the First Line

    By Jonathan Lee  May 20, 2022
    In Conversation

    A Conversation About Music, Memory, and the Topographies of Writing

    By Literary Hub  May 20, 2022
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  May 20, 2022
    Queers at the End of the World

    Octavia Butler’s Xenogenesis and the Erotics of Power

    By Queers at the End of the World  May 20, 2022
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