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The Reader is the Only Place That Matters: On the Metaphysical Space Within Literature

The Reader is the Only Place That Matters: On the Metaphysical Space Within Literature

Former Prison Librarian Blair Austin Wonders Where We Go When We Read

By Blair Austin | April 10, 2023

What to Read Before and After Seeing the Adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s <em>Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman</em>

What to Read Before and After Seeing the Adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

“Elegant, whimsical, and haunting.”

By Literary Hub | April 7, 2023

The Most Mysterious of Arts: On the Science of Reading

The Most Mysterious of Arts: On the Science of Reading

Adrian Johns Considers Our Attempts to Codify and Optimize Learning

By Adrian Johns | April 7, 2023

Dani Shapiro on Letting Structure Reveal Itself

Dani Shapiro on Letting Structure Reveal Itself

“You don’t know—you can’t know—whether the bricks you’ve laid on top will be supported by the bricks at the bottom.”

By Dani Shapiro | April 7, 2023

When Cate Blanchett Played Tennessee Williams’s Greatest Character

When Cate Blanchett Played Tennessee Williams’s Greatest Character

Nancy Schoenberger on the Power of Blanche duBois in Liv Ullmann's Unique Production of A Streetcar Named Desire

By Nancy Schoenberger | April 7, 2023

Jane Roper on Learning How to Have Fun While Writing Fiction

Jane Roper on Learning How to Have Fun While Writing Fiction

“Bringing your full self to your work, wielding all of your tools with abandon, is fun at a whole other level.”

By Jane Roper | April 7, 2023

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What Should You Read Next? Here Are the Best Reviewed Books of the Week

By Dan Sheehan | April 7, 2023

Our Father Issues: A Reading List of Spiritual Disillusionment

By Christiana Spens | April 7, 2023

A Passion for Living in the Present:
A Conversation with Yuko Tsushima and Annie Ernaux

By Lisa Hofmann-Kuroda | April 6, 2023

Nicole Chung on the Task of Winnowing a Life Story (and the Magic of Dogs)

Nicole Chung on the Task of Winnowing a Life Story (and the Magic of Dogs)

In Conversation with Maris Kreizman on The Maris Review Podcast

By The Maris Review | April 6, 2023

What It Feels Like to Publish Your Novel After 30 Years

What It Feels Like to Publish Your Novel After 30 Years

Melissa Coss Aquino on Being an Older Debut Novelist

By Melissa Coss Aquino | April 6, 2023

Manufacturing Lies: Dina Nayeri on How Our Cultural and Bureaucratic Norms Often Betray the Truth

Manufacturing Lies: Dina Nayeri on How Our Cultural and Bureaucratic Norms Often Betray the Truth

In Conversation with Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan on Fiction/Non/Fiction

By Fiction Non Fiction | April 6, 2023

Five Folklorists You’ve Never Heard Of: A Reading List of Overlooked Fairy Tales

Five Folklorists You’ve Never Heard Of: A Reading List of Overlooked Fairy Tales

Jack Zipes Recommends Édouard Labouylaye, Hermynia Zur Mühlen, and More

By Jack Zipes | April 6, 2023

Rewinding to the Great Indian Empires Before the British Raj

Rewinding to the Great Indian Empires Before the British Raj

Nandini Das Offers a Reading List on Indian Colonial History

By Nandini Das | April 6, 2023

Tiffany Clarke Harrison on Embracing the Fragmentary in Her Debut Novel

Tiffany Clarke Harrison on Embracing the Fragmentary in Her Debut Novel

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | April 6, 2023

Power and Resistance in the Catholic Church: A Reading List

Power and Resistance in the Catholic Church: A Reading List

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