• Craft and Criticism

    Book Dreams

    Sanjena Sathian on the Downfalls of Ambition

    By Book Dreams  September 16, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Lauren Groff Knows You’re Getting Her Book Title Wrong

    By The Maris Review  September 16, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Jai Chakrabarti Launches His Debut Novel

    By The Virtual Book Channel  September 16, 2021
    Literary History

    “Her Novels Were Not For Men.” On Suat Derviş, Turkish Novelist

    By Maureen Freely  September 16, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    T. C. Boyle Craves Structure, in Life and on the Page

    By Literary Hub  September 15, 2021
    Criticism

    Winning the Game You Didn’t Even Want to Play: On Sally Rooney and the Literature of the Pose

    By Stephen Marche  September 15, 2021
    Storytelling

    On the Subversive Power of Gossip

    By Maria Tatar  September 15, 2021
    Classic Novels

    The Gulf Between Aspiration and Accomplishment: Rebecca Mead on Saint Theresa and Middlemarch

    By Rebecca Mead  September 15, 2021
    New York City

    Big Town, Insistent Revolutions: On the Rich, Kaleidoscopic Lives of New Yorkers in Literature

    By Vince Passaro  September 15, 2021
    Ekphrasis

    On the Playwright Sarah Kane and Radical Ekphrasis in Contemporary Poetics

    By Andrea Abi-Karam  September 15, 2021
    The Body

    Writing a Novel Through Illness: On the Inseparability of Body and Mind

    By Cai Emmons  September 15, 2021
    Damian Barr's Literary Salon

    Sarah Gilmartin Reads from Dinner Party: A Tragedy

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  September 15, 2021
    new books tuesday

    15 new books to get from your local indie this week.

    By Katie Yee  September 14, 2021
    Literary Criticism

    Colson Whitehead: Why a Heist Novel Was the Best Way to Tell the Story of New York

    By Dwyer Murphy  September 14, 2021
    The Writing Life

    “Maybe More People Should Have Writer’s Block.” In Which Joy Williams Responds to Our Questions Via Typewriter

    By Joy Williams  September 14, 2021
    Science Writing

    Mary Roach on Finding What’s Weird and Wild in Science Stories

    By Corinne Segal  September 14, 2021
    Fairy Tales

    Is the Original Pinocchio Actually About Lying and Very Long Noses?

    By John Hooper and Anna Kraczyna  September 14, 2021
    Xenophobia

    How Richard Wright Grappled with Behaviorism, Racism, and Trauma in Native Son

    By George Makari  September 14, 2021
    Big Table

    Dana Gioia on Why Ray Bradbury is So Essential

    By Big Table  September 14, 2021
    Lit Hub Questionnaire

    Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers

    By Teddy Wayne  September 14, 2021
    Reading Lists

    Water, Water Everywhere: Readings on Life’s Essential Ingredient

    By Giulio Boccaletti  September 14, 2021
    So Many Damn Books

    Julie Shapiro and Claire Boyle on Reversing Roles for the 64th Issue of McSweeney’s

    By So Many Damn Books  September 14, 2021
    On Reading

    The Books That Give Us Chills: On Reading Emotionally

    By Veronica Esposito  September 13, 2021
    Queer Identity

    If I Had Loved Her Less: On a Queer Reading of Henry David Thoreau and the Daily Performance of Manhood

    By Jennifer Finney Boylan  September 13, 2021
    Criticism

    In Celebration of Laurie Colwin’s Lost Manhattan

    By Bethanne Patrick  September 13, 2021
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