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Rebecca Makkai on the Most Underutilized Tool in Fiction: Setting

Rebecca Makkai on the Most Underutilized Tool in Fiction: Setting

“Your setting is so alive, it’s almost a character!”

By Rebecca Makkai | February 24, 2023

Ancient Drama for Modern Readers: Top 5 Greek Plays to Read in Translation

Ancient Drama for Modern Readers: Top 5 Greek Plays to Read in Translation

Claire Heywood Guides You Into the Underworld of the Greek Epic

By Claire Heywood | February 24, 2023

Research I’d Rather Not Have Done: Pandemics Then and Now

Research I’d Rather Not Have Done: Pandemics Then and Now

Lynn Cullen on Dorothy Horstmann, the Woman Behind the Polio Vaccine

By Lynn Cullen | February 24, 2023

Why Fig Pollination and Literary Criticism Have a Lot in Common

Why Fig Pollination and Literary Criticism Have a Lot in Common

A. V. Marraccini Considers the Critical Gaze, Eroticism, and the Generative Third Body

By A. V. Marraccini | February 24, 2023

Interview with an Indie Press: Split/Lip Press

Interview with an Indie Press: Split/Lip Press

“Small presses often begin with a shoestring and a dream.”

By Katie Yee | February 24, 2023

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

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

Featuring New Titles by Rebecca Makkai, Nona Fernández, Jac Jemc, and More

By Book Marks | February 24, 2023

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“There’s No Easy Answer, But I’m Gonna Tell a Story About It.” Rebecca Makkai on Exploring the Gray Areas

By The Maris Review | February 23, 2023

5 Book Reviews You Need to Read This Week

By Book Marks | February 23, 2023

Dreams Are Serious Business: On the Dangers of a Fertile Fantasy Life

By Robin Yeatman | February 23, 2023

<em>Kingdom Quarterback</em>: Mark Dent and Rustin Dodd on Race, Kansas City Football, and Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes

Kingdom Quarterback: Mark Dent and Rustin Dodd on Race, Kansas City Football, and Super Bowl MVP Patrick Mahomes

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

By Fiction Non Fiction | February 23, 2023

Everything You Need to Know About Polarizing British-Irish Filmmaker Martin McDonagh

Everything You Need to Know About Polarizing British-Irish Filmmaker Martin McDonagh

Why Do People Love Him? Why Do People Hate Him? Does He Have a Famous Girlfriend?

By Dan Sheehan | February 23, 2023

Delia Cai on the Gift That Immigrant Parents Give Their Children

Delia Cai on the Gift That Immigrant Parents Give Their Children

In Conversation with Brad Listi on Otherppl

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | February 23, 2023

Poet Anthony Anaxagorou on Language and the Interaction of Colonialism and Patriarchy

Poet Anthony Anaxagorou on Language and the Interaction of Colonialism and Patriarchy

The Author of Heritage Aesthetics in Conversation with Peter Mishler

By Peter Mishler | February 23, 2023

The Struggle is Real: A Reading List of Messy, (Es)Strange(d), Surreal Families

The Struggle is Real: A Reading List of Messy, (Es)Strange(d), Surreal Families

J.A. Tyler Recommends Tim O’Brien, Peter Markus, Alison Bechdel, and More

By J. A. Tyler | February 23, 2023

London Bookseller James Gilbert on the Art of Recommending Books

London Bookseller James Gilbert on the Art of Recommending Books

This Week on the Book Dreams Podcast

By Book Dreams | February 23, 2023

Emmanuel Iduma’s Reckoning with the Silence, Inheritance and History of the Nigerian Civil War

Emmanuel Iduma’s Reckoning with the Silence, Inheritance and History of the Nigerian Civil War

In Conversation with Andrew Keen on Keen On

By Keen On | February 23, 2023

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