• Craft and Criticism

    Sci-Fi and Fantasy

    Unmoored in a City of Ruins: On the Revelatory Power of Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren

    By Joss Lake  June 22, 2021
    Greek Mythology

    Telling the True Stories of Ancient Greece Through Fiction

    By Claire Heywood  June 22, 2021
    new books tuesday

    20 new books to buy from your local indie (instead of you know where).

    By Katie Yee  June 22, 2021
    Writers on Writers

    Yan Lianke on Intoxicated Revolutionaries and the Importance of
    “Literary Distance”

    By An Yu  June 21, 2021
    Cities

    Joshua Jelly-Schapiro on the Rich Etymologies of Place-Names

    By Literary Hub  June 21, 2021
    The History of Literature

    The Top 10 Things to Love About Hamlet

    By History of Literature  June 21, 2021
    On Translation

    On the Diplomatic Mistranslation That Changed the Course of History

    By Anna Aslanyan  June 21, 2021
    Environment

    Jeff VanderMeer and Lili Taylor Talk Books, Birds, and Beauty

    By Megan Mayhew Bergman  June 21, 2021
    How to Write

    Why Budding Writers Should Be Less Precious—and More Cutthroat—with Their Drafts

    By Roy Peter Clark  June 21, 2021
    First Draft

    Diane Seuss: Does Language Eclipse Feeling?

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   June 21, 2021
    Big Table

    Unpacking the Enigma of George Orwell

    By Big Table  June 21, 2021
    The Writing Life

    John Cheever and Djuna Barnes, Patron Literary Saints of Suburbia and Bohemia, Died This Day in 1982.

    By Jonny Diamond  June 18, 2021
    Craft

    Ten Things Writers Need to Create Convincing Characters

    By Robert McKee  June 18, 2021
    Parenting and Writing

    When an Avowed Helicopter Parent Writes a Novel About Imperiled Children

    By Jonathan Evison  June 18, 2021
    New Books Network

    Andy Weir on the Problem of Interstellar Travel

    By New Books Network  June 18, 2021
    Racism

    On Juneteenth and the Struggle to Commemorate and Make Sense of Protest and Rebellion

    By Jelani Cobb  June 18, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Marie-Helene Bertino on Using Humor to Connect with Readers

    By Marie-Helene Bertino  June 18, 2021
    The Common

    Silvia Spring on Living Abroad and Writing in Community

    By The Common  June 18, 2021
    Education

    On the Self-Education of Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X, and the Insatiable Quest for Literacy

    By Brandon P. Fleming  June 18, 2021
    The Internet

    What We’re Getting Wrong About So-Called Internet Literature

    By Shya Scanlon  June 17, 2021
    Teaching

    Lessons in Teaching: When Your Student’s a Better Writer Than You Are

    By Elyssa Friedland  June 17, 2021
    Novelists

    On My Most Embarrassing Literary Encounters (So Far)

    By Matthew Norman  June 17, 2021
    Feminism

    Lessons in Forgiveness and Intergenerational Feminism

    By Veronica Esposito  June 17, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Ashley C. Ford on Keeping in Touch with Her Child Self

    By The Maris Review  June 17, 2021
    Language

    On a Non-Native English Speaker’s Creative Journey to Authenticity

    By Dariel Suarez  June 17, 2021
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