• Craft and Criticism

    Revision

    A Survivor’s Guide to the Long, Slow, Infuriating Process of Revision

    By Peter Ho Davies  November 2, 2021
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    November’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

    By Book Marks  November 2, 2021
    In Conversation

    Elizabeth Strout on Inhabiting Her Characters and Writing Directly

    By Jane Ciabattari  November 2, 2021
    Finnegan and Friends

    Announcing the New Season of The Cosmic Library

    By Finnegan and Friends  November 2, 2021
    TV

    How David Foster Wallace Anticipated Netflix’s Digital Gatekeeping

    By Stuart Jeffries  November 1, 2021
    The Writing Life

    On the Gift (and Weight) of Winning a “Free” House

    By Anne Elizabeth Moore  November 1, 2021
    Beauty

    Whither the Plain Female Protagonist? On “Great Beauty” in Literature

    By Lucinda Rosenfeld  November 1, 2021
    War

    Paul Auster on One of the Most Astonishing War Stories in American Literature

    By Paul Auster  November 1, 2021
    Reading Lists

    Tana French on James Baldwin, Watership Down, and Hating Hawthorne

    By Book Marks  November 1, 2021
    The History of Literature

    “The King of Poets.” On Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal

    By History of Literature  November 1, 2021
    First Draft

    “Nobody’s Free Until Everbody’s Free.” Keisha N. Blain on Lou Hamer’s Work and Life

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   November 1, 2021
    Horror

    Do Motives Matter When It Comes to Movie Horror?

    By Tyler Malone  October 29, 2021
    On Grief

    How Horror Mirrors the Irrevocability of Grief

    By Gus Moreno  October 29, 2021
    Taboo

    Ghostly Taboos: Superstitious Rules and Gendered Restrictions

    By Aimee Parkison  October 29, 2021
    The Literary Life

    Tananarive Due on Reinventing Black Horror

    By The Literary Life  October 29, 2021
    Literary Criticism

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

    By Book Marks  October 29, 2021
    Mental health

    What Therapists Are Reading to Get Through the Many Crises of the Moment

    By Chaya Bhuvaneswar  October 29, 2021
    New Books Network

    Rhys Bowen on Writing Her Version of a Dark Novel

    By New Books Network  October 29, 2021
    Writing

    How the Everyday Becomes Mythic Through Fiction

    By Andrew Siegrist  October 29, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Victoria Chang on the Real Questions that Power Stories

    By Victoria Chang  October 29, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Miriam Toews on the Rebellion of Exuberance

    By The Maris Review  October 28, 2021
    Misinformation

    The Call is Coming From Inside the House: On Fighting Disinformation

    By Nina Jankowicz  October 28, 2021
    Biography

    Breaking Through the Self-Mythologizing of the Male Artist as a Woman Biographer

    By Gabrielle Selz  October 28, 2021
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    Here are October’s Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books

    By Book Marks  October 28, 2021
    Book Reviews You Need to Read

    5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

    By Book Marks  October 28, 2021
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