• Craft and Criticism

    Astrology or Whatever

    The Astrology Book Club: What to Read This Month, Based on Your Sign

    By Emily Temple  September 1, 2021
    Memory

    What Would Marcel Proust’s Instagram Grid Look Like?

    By Meredith Westgate  September 1, 2021
    Thresholds

    Lauren Sandler on Setting Up Ground Rules with Her Book Subjects

    By Thresholds   September 1, 2021
    Otherppl

    Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi on the Ambiguous and Unfolding Process of Healing

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  September 1, 2021
    new books tuesday

    13 new books to add to your TBR pile right now.

    By Katie Yee  August 31, 2021
    What to Read Next

    22 Novels You Need to Read This Fall

    By Emily Temple  August 31, 2021
    dialogue

    Not Sure If Your Dialogue Is Any Good? Get an Actor to Perform It

    By Calvin Kasulke  August 31, 2021
    So Many Damn Books

    Mona Awad on the Duality and Universality of Shakespeare

    By So Many Damn Books  August 31, 2021
    Big Table

    Yuval Taylor on Zora Neale Hurston’s Initial Reception

    By Big Table  August 31, 2021
    Narrative

    A Very Particular Risk: Aimee Bender on Jane Campion and Kazuo Ishiguro

    By Aimee Bender  August 30, 2021
    Shakespeare

    The Comical, Ominous Power of a Shakespearean Mob

    By Robert McCrum  August 30, 2021
    Children's Literature

    Imaginary Kingdoms: On the Power of Literature That Speaks to Children and Adults Alike

    By Stephen Prickett  August 30, 2021
    Mothers and Daughters

    Who Was Mary Shelley, Daughter?

    By Samantha Silva  August 30, 2021
    The History of Literature

    On Henry James’s Very Long Short Story

    By History of Literature  August 30, 2021
    First Draft

    Christine Mangan on the Delicate Balance of Crafting Suspense

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   August 30, 2021
    War

    How the War Made Wittgenstein the Philosopher He Was

    By Richard Barnett  August 27, 2021
    Class

    Who Gets To Be Bossypants? On Class and Privilege in Female Comedians’ Memoirs

    By Sarah Jaffe  August 27, 2021
    Westerns

    On Reimagining the Limitless Potential of the Literary Western

    By Gordy Sauer  August 27, 2021
    Journalism

    On the Art of the Query: How the Best Kinds of Questions Move Beyond Objectivity

    By Amy Wright  August 27, 2021
    Labor

    How Come We Don’t Know More About the Largest Labor Battle in the History of the United States?

    By Jeffrey Webb  August 27, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Bonnie Friedman on the Pleasure of Diving into Details

    By Bonnie Friedman  August 27, 2021
    Family Stories

    Too Close To Home: Writing a Book That Your Parents Won’t Read

    By Michelle Jana Chan  August 27, 2021
    Research

    How an Irish Syntactical Peculiarity Helped Me Find My Protagonist’s Voice

    By Kia Corthron  August 27, 2021
    The Common

    Jose Hernandez Diaz on the Surrealism of Prose Poetry

    By The Common  August 27, 2021
    How a Person Should Be

    Wayne Koestenbaum Would Like to Thank Dreams and Nouns

    By Wayne Koestenbaum  August 26, 2021
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