• Craft and Criticism

    Reading Women

    Reading Women on the Emotional Complexities in Women’s Crime Fiction

    By Reading Women  October 20, 2021
    Reading

    On Finding the Book That Returns You to Your Body

    By Dodie Bellamy  October 20, 2021
    Trauma

    Writing Through Trauma, Past and Present: On the Legacies of Catholic Ireland

    By Elaine Feeney  October 20, 2021
    Reading Lists

    8 Great Novels That Take Place Over the Course of a Day

    By Sonya Huber  October 19, 2021
    Narrative Structures

    Tiphanie Yanique on Moving Beyond Traditional Hero Narratives

    By Jane Ciabattari  October 19, 2021
    Playwrights

    “Cut, Cut, Cut, Until the Spirit Shines Through.” Sarah Ruhl on Craft and Catharsis

    By Beth Henley  October 19, 2021
    Lit Century

    How Photography Shaped Wright Morris’s Fiction

    By Lit Century   October 19, 2021
    Coming of Age

    Seeking Solace in Go Ask Alice as a Queer Teen

    By Nathan Smith  October 19, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Forrest Gander on Grief, Translation, and Sharing Joy in Times of Suffering

    By The Quarantine Tapes  October 19, 2021
    What to Read Next

    TaraShea Nesbit on Tove Jansson, Matilda, and The Autobiography of Malcolm X

    By Book Marks  October 19, 2021
    Old English

    On the Various, Multipurposed Manuscripts of Canterbury Tales

    By Mary Wellesley  October 19, 2021
    new books tuesday

    16 new books to look for this week.

    By Katie Yee  October 19, 2021
    Journalism

    Writing from Home: Lessons from a Novelist-Slash-Small-Town Newspaper Columnist

    By Nickolas Butler  October 18, 2021
    Classic Reviews

    “The Anti-James Bond.” Read This Early Review of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

    By Book Marks  October 18, 2021
    The Writing Life

    How Do You Write About People Who Don’t Want To Be Written About?

    By Ethan Lou  October 18, 2021
    Neuroscience

    On the Historical Stigmatization and Persistent Vilification of Epilepsy in Literature

    By Louise Fein  October 18, 2021
    First Draft

    Richard Powers on the Duplicity of Bewilderment

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 18, 2021
    The History of Literature

    On the Compulsion and Seduction of Mystery Tales

    By History of Literature  October 18, 2021
    Theater

    Oedipus at the Bellevue Men’s Shelter: How Sophocles Speaks to Contemporary Trauma

    By Bryan Doerries  October 18, 2021
    What to Read Next

    Betsy Bonner on Wuthering Heights, Bluets, and Mary Gaitskill’s Sex Scenes

    By Book Marks  October 18, 2021
    The Hub

    Read Ezra Pound’s extensive revisions to T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.

    By Vanessa Willoughby  October 15, 2021
    Open Source

    Jonathan Franzen on Reckoning with the Limits and Purposes of Writing Novels

    By Open Source  October 15, 2021
    Birds

    A Compendium of Literary Ravens

    By Angus Hyland and Caroline Roberts  October 15, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Marguerite Duras on Finding Stories Everywhere

    By Marguerite Duras  October 15, 2021
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    5 Books You May Have Missed in September

    By Bethanne Patrick  October 15, 2021
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