• Craft and Criticism

    The Hub

    “Too much exercise!” Read Flaubert’s (very harsh) writing advice for Guy de Maupassant.

    By Emily Temple  August 3, 2020
    Nonfiction

    A Taxonomy of Nonfiction;
    Or the Pleasures of Precision

    By Karen Babine  August 3, 2020
    What to Read Next

    The Essential Steven Millhauser: Where to Start With An Underrated American Master

    By Emily Temple  August 3, 2020
    American Classics

    Jeet Heer on the Complex Origins of Little Orphan Annie

    By Jeet Heer  August 3, 2020
    In Memoriam

    Joy Williams on the Troubling Grace and Strange Assurances of Brad Watson’s Work

    By Joy Williams  August 3, 2020
    Brazilian literature

    On Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis’s Rise to the Top of Brazilian Literature

    By Robin Patterson and Margaret Jull Costa  August 3, 2020
    Astrology or Whatever

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

    By Emily Temple  July 31, 2020
    Publishing

    My Novel’s Heroine is Doing Better in the Publishing World Than I Did

    By Ellen Feldman  July 31, 2020
    Teaching High School

    Teaching Students to Use Their Voices Through Theater

    By Nick Ripatrazone  July 31, 2020
    Comics

    My Unborn Baby Has Strong Opinions About Classic Literature

    By Kate Gavino  July 30, 2020
    Literary Scenes

    A New Generation of Writers in Bosnia and Herzegovina Narrates Life
    Beyond War

    By Stacy Mattingly  July 30, 2020
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    The Unpopular Tale of Populism: Thomas Frank on the Real History of an American Mass Movement

    By Fiction Non Fiction  July 30, 2020
    Mighty SONG Writers

    WATCH: Amanda Shires with Jason Isbell on Writing Advice, Favorite Teachers (and a Song or Two)

    By Literary Hub  July 29, 2020
    Literary History

    The Literary Life of Pessoa’s Alter Ego

    By Jerónimo Pizarro and Patricio Ferrari  July 29, 2020
    Life in a Pandemic

    Is This the End of Writing in Cafés?

    By Emily Temple  July 28, 2020
    Publishing

    How to Write an Email Well Enough to Land a Book Deal

    By Anne Trubek  July 28, 2020
    Linguistics

    Some of the Earliest Written Dialogues Were in Middle English Literature

    By David Crystal  July 28, 2020
    Anti-Colonialism

    Amiri Baraka’s Anti-Epic Poem About America’s Destruction

    By Michael Leong  July 28, 2020
    The Writing Life

    To Live Alone in the Woods and Write

    By Melissa Faliveno  July 27, 2020
    5 Questions

    Byron Lane on Being Carrie Fisher’s Personal Assistant

    By Literary Hub  July 27, 2020
    Jane Austen

    On Jane Austen’s Politics of Walking

    By Rachel Cohen  July 24, 2020
    Hawaiian History

    The Citizen Scholar Who Led the Hunt for Queen Lili’uokalani’s Lost Diaries

    By Julia Flynn Siler  July 24, 2020
    5 Questions

    Amanda Brainerd on Bowie, Boarding School, and the Discourse Around Consent

    By Literary Hub  July 24, 2020
    Nazi Germany

    Learning to Decipher My Father’s Past in Nazi Germany

    By L. Annette Binder  July 24, 2020
    Conversations

    Catherine Lacey is Not Interested in Promises of Redemption

    By Kristin Iversen  July 23, 2020
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