• Craft and Criticism

    The Hub

    The time Terry Pratchett’s German publisher inserted a soup ad into his novel.

    By Jonny Diamond  October 4, 2021
    Astrology or Whatever

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

    By Emily Temple  October 4, 2021
    Climate Fiction

    Writing the Anxiety of Parenthood on the Precipice of Apocalypse

    By Emma Szewczak  October 4, 2021
    Identity

    On Babar: Model of Integration or Crumbling Myth?

    By Faїza Guène and Sarah Ardizzone  October 4, 2021
    Reading Lists

    The Literature of Migration and Caribbean Identity in America: A Reading List

    By Antonio Michael Downing  October 4, 2021
    First Draft

    Peter Orner on the Pressure of Fiction’s Infinite Possibilities

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 4, 2021
    The History of Literature

    On Philip Roth’s Lasting Legacy

    By History of Literature  October 4, 2021
    What to Read

    Jen Winston on Bluets, Bisexual Representation, and Hating the Classics

    By Book Marks  October 4, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Victoria Chang on Grief, Craft, and the Joys of Obsession

    By The Quarantine Tapes  October 4, 2021
    Food History

    When Life Gives You Lemons, It’s a Status Symbol: On the Evolving Literary and Cultural History of Citrus

    By Jean Huang  October 1, 2021
    News and Culture

    Rooney, Powers, Whitehead… Here Are September’s Best Reviewed Books

    By Book Marks  October 1, 2021
    Reading Lists

    A Spooky, Witchy Reading List to Kick off Scary Season

    By Fire Lyte  October 1, 2021
    Advice

    The Theory of (Artistic) Relativity, Illustrated

    By Michelle Rial  October 1, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Roy Peter Clark on How to Write Cinematically

    By Roy Peter Clark  October 1, 2021
    Indie Booksellers Recommend

    Indie Booksellers Recommend: The Best of Independent Presses This September and October

    By Corinne Segal  October 1, 2021
    Open Source

    A Ghost in His Own Life: Colm Tóibín on the Great Thomas Mann

    By Open Source  October 1, 2021
    News and Culture

    AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of September

    By Book Marks  October 1, 2021
    Indigenous History

    On the History of Powhatan Culture and Colonization: A Reading List

    By Brian Swann  October 1, 2021
    The Hub

    It’s time to start naming a book’s translator on the cover.

    By Jonny Diamond  September 30, 2021
    Rejection

    How to Deal with Rejection (and Get Revenge) Like Edgar Allan Poe

    By Catherine Baab-Muguira  September 30, 2021
    Paperbacks

    17 Great Titles That Come Out in Paperback This October

    By Arianna Rebolini  September 30, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    María Kodama, Widow of Jorge Luis Borges, on the Ghosts That Inhabit Us

    By The Quarantine Tapes  September 30, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Against Certainty: Melissa Broder on the Intellectual Freedom of Poetry

    By The Maris Review  September 30, 2021
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    Here Are September’s Best Reviewed Science, Technology, and Nature Books

    By Book Marks  September 30, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Qian Julie Wang in Conversation with Charles Yu

    By The Virtual Book Channel  September 30, 2021
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