• Craft and Criticism

    Book Marks Questionnaire

    Tara Westover on Rachel Cusk, Jennifer Egan, and Madame Bovary

    By Book Marks  February 7, 2022
    Japanese Literature

    Lauren Groff on Yūko Tsushima’s Quietly Defiant Sensualities

    By Lauren Groff  February 7, 2022
    The History of Literature

    Liu Xinwu and the “Scar Literature” of China

    By History of Literature  February 7, 2022
    Big Table

    Warren Ellis on Mementos of the Music World

    By Big Table  February 7, 2022
    Underreported

    Jeffrey Wasserstrom on Censorship and Translated Literature in China

    By Underreported with Nicholas Lemann  February 7, 2022
    Keen On

    Christopher Leonard on How Quantitative Easing is Imperiling the US Economy

    By Keen On  February 7, 2022
    First Draft

    “Secrets Really Power a Book.” A Conversation with Steven Schwartz

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 7, 2022
    Film

    Is Wonder Boys the Best-Ever Onscreen Depiction of a Writer?

    By Ryan Chapman  February 4, 2022
    The Virtual Book Channel

    EXCLUSIVE: Watch Joshua Bennett Discuss A.R. Ammons’s poem “Cascadilla Falls”

    By The Virtual Book Channel  February 4, 2022
    Physics

    On Taking Writing Lessons from Quantum Physics

    By Hisham Bustani  February 4, 2022
    Letters

    The Lion Speaks: On the Potency of the Epistolary Form

    By Daniel Black  February 4, 2022
    Keen On

    Michael L. Walker on the Emotional and Physical Experience of Doing Time in Jail

    By Keen On  February 4, 2022
    Interview with an Indie Press

    Interview with an Indie Press: Beacon Press

    By Corinne Segal  February 4, 2022
    Historical Fiction

    Amor Towles on Bringing a Historical Setting to Life

    By Amor Towles  February 4, 2022
    Otherppl

    “When You Feel Things, You Have to Talk About Them.” Emmelie Prophète on Writing About Family

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  February 4, 2022
    Keen On

    Dave Pell on the Maddening Hell That Was the 2020 News Cycle

    By Keen On  February 4, 2022
    New Books Network

    Lyndsey Ellis on Writing About the St. Louis Community After Ferguson

    By New Books Network  February 4, 2022
    Behind the Mic

    Davina Porter on the Delights and Challenges of Narrating the Outlander Series

    By Behind the Mic   February 4, 2022
    The Literary Life

    Elisa New and Richard Blanco on the Diversity of American Poetry

    By The Literary Life  February 4, 2022
    Craft

    How to Read a Play as a Manual for Novel Writing

    By Julia May Jonas  February 3, 2022
    First Draft

    Peter Ho Davies on Why We Fear Revision (and How to Get Over It)

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   February 3, 2022
    Solitude

    On the Moral and Metaphysical Significance of Aloneness

    By Sumana Roy  February 3, 2022
    Craft

    Bernardine Evaristo on Lessons Learned From Toni Morrison

    By Bernardine Evaristo  February 3, 2022
    Illustrations

    Some Helpful Metaphors for Writing a Novel, Illustrated

    By Swan Huntley  February 3, 2022
    The Maris Review

    Isaac Butler on Why No One Actually Understands Method Acting

    By The Maris Review  February 3, 2022
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