• Craft and Criticism

    The Hub

    15 new books to love this week.

    By Katie Yee  February 15, 2022
    Cooking

    “We Get to Be Young Only Once.” On My Life-Changing Discovery of Laurie Colwin

    By Kim Fay  February 15, 2022
    Murder

    On the Feminine Urge to Murder

    By Heather O'Neill  February 15, 2022
    Literary Criticism

    The Unspeakable Through the Diminutive: Read a 1986 Review of Maus

    By Book Marks  February 15, 2022
    I'm a Writer But

    Leigh Stein on Writing a Pandemic Time Capsule

    By I'm a Writer But   February 15, 2022
    So Many Damn Books

    Why Sara Gran Self-Published After Years in the Book Industry

    By So Many Damn Books  February 15, 2022
    Keen On

    Amy Webb on How Synthetic Biology Will Change Our Lives

    By Keen On  February 15, 2022
    Reading Lists

    Qualities of Magic: On Books You’ll Keep Coming Back To

    By Dr. Kate Gale  February 15, 2022
    Keen On

    Jason Pack on the Conflict in Libya as an Example of Geopolitical Failure

    By Keen On  February 15, 2022
    Keen On

    Jeff Rosenblum on How Brands Can Grow Exponentially and Create Communities

    By Keen On  February 15, 2022
    What to Watch

    In the Resurgence of Folk Horror, We Are the Villains

    By Michelle Nijhuis  February 14, 2022
    Queer History

    Grace Lavery’s Reading List of Queer Treasures

    By Grace Lavery  February 14, 2022
    The Writing Life

    What Science Journalism Taught Me About Writing Fiction

    By Sara Goudarzi  February 14, 2022
    On Love

    The Loyal, the Requited, the Tender: Kathryn Schulz on the Pleasures of Love’s Middle

    By Kathryn Schulz  February 14, 2022
    First Draft

    Anahid Nersessian’s Close Reading of Keats’s “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 14, 2022
    Adoption

    “The Bittersweet Joys.” Five Books That Center Asian Voices in Adoption Narratives

    By Lyn Liao Butler  February 14, 2022
    Red Ink Series

    Live at the Red Ink Series: On Loneliness in the Writing Life

    By Literary Hub  February 14, 2022
    Big Table

    Matthew Specktor on the Cultural Memory of Los Angeles

    By Big Table  February 14, 2022
    Keen On

    Roman Krznaric on How to be Remembered as Good Ancestors

    By Keen On  February 14, 2022
    Underreported

    Megan Walsh on Yan Lianke and Fiction Writing in China

    By Underreported with Nicholas Lemann  February 11, 2022
    The Craft of Writing

    Chuck Klosterman on Writing Criticism for a Wide Audience

    By Chuck Klosterman  February 11, 2022
    Therapy

    How Narrative Therapy Can Help Us Take Ownership of Our Stories

    By Veronica Esposito  February 11, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    EXCLUSIVE: Watch Evie Shockley Discuss Her Poem “you can say that again, billie”

    By The Virtual Book Channel  February 11, 2022
    Best Reviewed Books of the Week

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

    By Book Marks  February 11, 2022
    Keen On

    Antonia Fraser on the 19th-Century Heroine Who Wanted Justice for Women

    By Keen On  February 11, 2022
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