• Craft and Criticism

    Beyond the Page

    Behind the Scenes: Programming the 2022 Sun Valley Writers’ Conference

    By Sun Valley Writers' Conference  May 5, 2022
    Keen On

    How Everyone—Left and Right—Has Misrepresented the History of Texas

    By Keen On  May 5, 2022
    Keen On

    How Apple Appears to Have Lost Its Soul in the Post-Steve Jobs Era

    By Keen On  May 5, 2022
    Keen On

    Should We Really Want to Reclaim “Reality” in Our Counterfeit World?

    By Keen On  May 5, 2022
    The Hub

    Guerre, a Louis-Ferdinand Celine manuscript once thought lost, will be published in France.

    By Jonny Diamond  May 4, 2022
    Home

    The Girl Who Left, The Woman Who Stayed: Finding Georgia O’Keeffe in a Small Southern Town

    By Megan Mayhew Bergman  May 4, 2022
    The Annotated Nightstand

    The Annotated Nightstand: What Renee Gladman is Reading Now and Next

    By Diana Arterian  May 4, 2022
    Thresholds

    Endnotes on the World Around Us: Ross Gay, adrienne maree brown, and More Voices from Thresholds

    By Thresholds   May 4, 2022
    Memoirs

    Memoirs with Benefits: A Reading List of Hybrid Narratives

    By Courtney Maum  May 4, 2022
    Keen On

    What William Blake Might Tell Us About Our Transhuman Future

    By Keen On  May 4, 2022
    Queer Literature

    Why Queer Stories Deserve Happy Endings

    By Susie Dumond  May 4, 2022
    Otherppl

    “We’re the Fools in Charge of Forgiveness.” Steve Almond on the Task of the Social Novelist

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 4, 2022
    Mythology

    Why We Turn to Myths to Untangle Old Problems

    By Jennifer Saint   May 4, 2022
    Queer Identity

    The Story That Saved Me: On Writing My Way Out of a Life That No Longer Felt Like Mine

    By Lauren McBrayer  May 4, 2022
    Keen On

    How to Nurture the Philosopher in All Our Kids

    By Keen On  May 4, 2022
    Keen On

    Why Quitting Good Ideas Is Often a Winning Strategy

    By Keen On  May 4, 2022
    The Hub

    15 great paperback books coming out this May.

    By Katie Yee  May 3, 2022
    What to Watch

    A Shakespearean Study Guide for The Northman

    By The Why Shakespeare? Course   May 3, 2022
    On Writing

    Following the Workings of My Mind: Gerald Murnane Rereads His First Novel

    By Gerald Murnane  May 3, 2022
    Writers in Conversation

    Hernan Diaz: “I Wouldn’t Be the Person I am Without Borges.”

    By Jane Ciabattari  May 3, 2022
    Book Design

    On the Groundbreaking Art of Bascove’s Book Covers

    By Rebecca Rego Barry  May 3, 2022
    Writing

    Lessons Learned from a Year Listening to the Fictional Octopus in My Head

    By Shelby Van Pelt  May 3, 2022
    The Cosmic Library

    Struggling with Disaster—and Language—in the Hebrew Bible

    By The Cosmic Library   May 3, 2022
    On Writing

    How the Small Moments That Haunt Us Can Form the Seeds of a Novel

    By Steve Almond  May 3, 2022
    new books tuesday

    25 new books to pick up this week.

    By Katie Yee  May 3, 2022
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