I’m the Luckiest Person in the World Because I Have Two Families, One Black and One White

I’m the Luckiest Person in the World Because I Have Two Families, One Black and One White

Ousman Umar in Conversation with Andrew Keen

By Keen On | May 24, 2022

Jackie Amezquita on Migration, Memory and Making Art

Jackie Amezquita on Migration, Memory and Making Art

From the ArtCenter College of Design’s Bi-Weekly Podcast

By Change Lab | May 24, 2022

15 new books to help you get through the week.

15 new books to help you get through the week.

By Katie Yee | May 24, 2022

Elizabeth Hardwick on the Capable Coolness of Faye Dunaway

Elizabeth Hardwick on the Capable Coolness of Faye Dunaway

“She seems to be expressing a solitariness that is unusual, anti-romantic.”

By Elizabeth Hardwick | May 23, 2022

How Contemporary Chinese Literature Made Western Modernism Its Own

How Contemporary Chinese Literature Made Western Modernism Its Own

Yan Lianke on the Concept of “Mythorealism”

By Yan Lianke and Carlos Rojas | May 23, 2022

Xu Xi on Living the Transnational Literary Life

Xu Xi on Living the Transnational Literary Life

“Life really isn’t stranger than fiction, but you have to keep reading, and rereading, to know that.”

By Xu Xi | May 23, 2022

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In Praise of the Unhappy Happy Ending

By Natalie Jenner | May 23, 2022

Jeffrey Yang on the Parallels Between Wood Carving and Poetry

By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing | May 23, 2022

My Queer Life Is Not Inappropriate, and Neither Are the Books That Reflect It

By Nicole Melleby | May 23, 2022

Funny Books for an Unfunny World: A Reading List

Funny Books for an Unfunny World: A Reading List

Dennard Dayle on the Books That Embrace “Maniacal Laughter”

By Dennard Dayle | May 23, 2022

Marie Myung-Ok Lee on the Inevitable Slowness of Writing

Marie Myung-Ok Lee on the Inevitable Slowness of Writing

The Author of The Evening Hero Talks to Jimin Han

By Jimin Han | May 23, 2022

Considering the Morals of Kierkegaard’s <em>Fear and Trembling</em>

Considering the Morals of Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling

From the The History of Literature Podcast with Jacke Wilson

By History of Literature | May 23, 2022

Natalie Diaz on the Mojave Language and Where English Fails Us

Natalie Diaz on the Mojave Language and Where English Fails Us

Dahr Jamail Talks to Diaz About Building a Lexicon

By Dahr Jamail | May 20, 2022

Naming the Unnamed: On the Many Uses of the Letter X

Naming the Unnamed: On the Many Uses of the Letter X

Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza Considers X as a Symbol of Prohibition and Expansion

By Emily McCrary-Ruiz-Esparza | May 20, 2022

Don Winslow Is Hopeful For the Future

Don Winslow Is Hopeful For the Future

In Conversation with Mitchell Kaplan on The Literary Life Podcast

By The Literary Life | May 20, 2022

Jonathan Lee on Hooking a Reader with the First Line

Jonathan Lee on Hooking a Reader with the First Line

“No one wants to feel the writer trying too hard.”

By Jonathan Lee | May 20, 2022

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