• Craft and Criticism

    Keen On

    The Surrealism of Life as Secretary of Defense in the Trump Regime

    By Keen On  May 18, 2022
    The Writing Life

    What Do Writing a Novel and Tending a Garden Have in Common?

    By Naheed Phiroze Patel  May 18, 2022
    Creativity

    You Can’t Have Creativity Without Boredom

    By Aaron Angello  May 18, 2022
    NewberyTart

    Virginia Hamilton and the History of Ghosts in Black Literature

    By NewberyTart   May 18, 2022
    Narrative

    Reclaiming Power Over One’s Own Story: Aminatta Forna on Abdulrazak Gurnah

    By Aminatta Forna  May 17, 2022
    new books tuesday

    19 new books to savor this week.

    By Katie Yee  May 17, 2022
    War Reporting

    How War Literature Occupies the Realms of Both Fact and Fiction

    By Phil Klay  May 17, 2022
    Criticism

    Spending Time in Joy Williams’s Celestial Waiting Rooms

    By Nicole Miller  May 17, 2022
    But Make It Fashion

    Emma Straub’s Advice for What to Wear to a Book Launch

    By Emma Straub  May 17, 2022
    Novellas

    Victoria Shorr on the Art of the Novella

    By Victoria Shorr  May 17, 2022
    Immigration stories

    Vanessa Hua on Writing About the Forgotten Women in Mao’s Inner Circle

    By Jane Ciabattari  May 17, 2022
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Elamin Abdelmahmoud is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  May 17, 2022
    Keen On

    How to Make Sense of Profound Arbitrariness in a World That Is Suppose to Make Sense

    By Keen On  May 17, 2022
    Keen On

    Finally a History of Art That Includes Female and Non-White Artists

    By Keen On  May 17, 2022
    Keen On

    Lise Vesterlund on The No Club and How to Put a Stop to Women’s Dead End Work

    By Keen On  May 17, 2022
    Micro

    An Ode to Memory and Place: Readings by Brian Alan Ellis, Grant Faulkner, and Erin Calabria

    By Micro   May 17, 2022
    On Poetry

    On the Gnostic Ironies of Poets Nathaniel Mackey and Fanny Howe

    By Steven Toussaint  May 16, 2022
    First Draft

    Ada Limón on Why Being Witnessed Is Essential For an Artist

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 16, 2022
    Writers in Conversation

    On the Power and Purpose of Historical Fiction

    By Literary Hub  May 16, 2022
    Romance

    Tracing the Romance Genre’s Radical Roots, from Derided “Sex Novels” to Bridgerton

    By Hilary A. Hallett  May 16, 2022
    Libraries

    On My Love of Libraries: Lessons From My Father

    By Rachel M. Harper  May 16, 2022
    Keen On

    The Significance of Romare Bearden’s Art in the American Canon

    By Keen On  May 16, 2022
    Shelf Talkers

    Shelf Talkers: What They’re Reading at South Main Book Company

    By Literary Hub  May 16, 2022
    Keen On

    Are We At the End of (the) History (of Liberalism)?

    By Keen On  May 16, 2022
    Emergence Magazine

    Singer Sam Lee on the Transformative Experience of Creating Songs in Collaboration With Nightingales

    By Emergence Magazine  May 16, 2022
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