• Craft and Criticism

    The Hub

    Writers, take heart: K-Pop superstars are just like you!

    By Jonny Diamond  May 17, 2021
    Writers on Writers

    Symbiosis and Psychedelics: An Exploratory Conversation Between Edward St. Aubyn and Merlin Sheldrake

    By Merlin Sheldrake and Edward St. Aubyn  May 17, 2021
    The History of Literature

    What Can We Still Take from Philip Larkin?

    By History of Literature  May 17, 2021
    Criticism

    The Twisted Dream of Home Ownership in Tana French’s Novels

    By Nora Caplan-Bricker  May 17, 2021
    Storytelling

    Is Fabulism the New Sincerity?

    By Brenda Peynado  May 17, 2021
    First Draft

    Layla AlAmmar: Who Gets to Dictate How a Story Is Told?

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 17, 2021
    Love and Romance

    How We Wrote a Joint Memoir Without Sabotaging Our Relationship

    By Meg Bashwiner and Joseph Fink  May 17, 2021
    Science fiction

    On the Best Subversive, Genre-Busting Writer You’ve Never Heard Of

    By Tobias Carroll  May 14, 2021
    Jane Austen

    Pride and Property:
    On the Homes of Jane Austen

    By Phyllis Richardson  May 14, 2021
    Horror

    Why Are Creepy Children So Compelling?

    By A. J. Gnuse  May 14, 2021
    TV

    Barry Jenkins’ Underground Railroad is Even More Challenging Than the Novel

    By Emily Temple  May 14, 2021
    On Translation

    In Praise of the Singular “They”
    in Literary Translation

    By Isaac Stackhouse Wheeler  May 14, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    Olivia Laing on Writing the Global Story of Liberation

    By Olivia Laing  May 14, 2021
    Interview with an Indie Press

    Interview with an Indie Press: Tin House

    By Corinne Segal  May 14, 2021
    New Books Network

    Bonnie MacBird on Expanding the Canon of Sherlock and Watson

    By New Books Network  May 14, 2021
    The Literary Life

    Cambria Gordon on the Lost Art of Penmanship

    By The Literary Life  May 14, 2021
    Jane Austen

    Why Did I Wait So Long to Read Jane Austen?

    By Joshua Raff  May 13, 2021
    The Writing Life

    When an Apparition of Virginia Woolf Interrupts Your Writing Process

    By Rachel Eisendrath  May 13, 2021
    African American Literature

    Tayari Jones on The Women of Brewster Place, Nearly Forty Years Later

    By Tayari Jones  May 13, 2021
    Reading Women

    Elissa Washuta on Composing the Three-Act Structure of Her Essay Collection

    By Reading Women  May 13, 2021
    On Poetry

    A Lifetime of Luminous Poetry: Nandana Dev Sen on Translating the Work of Her Mother, Nabaneeta

    By Nandana Dev Sen  May 13, 2021
    Red Ink Series

    Live at the Red Ink Series: How Desire Propels the Writing Life

    By Literary Hub  May 13, 2021
    Open Form

    Nate Marshall on Robert Townsend… Greatest American Filmmaker?

    By Open Form  May 13, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney on Starting All Over Again… And Again

    By The Maris Review  May 13, 2021
    The Quarantine Tapes

    John Freeman: Toward a Practice of Collaboration

    By The Quarantine Tapes  May 13, 2021
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