• Craft and Criticism

    Children's Literature

    What 2020 Children’s Book Roundups Are Missing

    By Sara B. Franklin  December 21, 2020
    Best of the Year

    The 10 Best Book Reviews
    of 2020

    By Adam Morgan  December 21, 2020
    First Draft

    Danielle Evans on Writing Into Power Dynamics

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   December 21, 2020
    Poetry

    On the e.e. cummings Christmas Poem “little tree”

    By J. Alison Rosenblitt  December 21, 2020
    Poetry

    Lorna Dee Cervantes on Allen Ginsberg and the Interplay Between Beat and
    Chicano Poetry

    By Lorna Dee Cervantes  December 21, 2020
    The History of Literature

    Rewriting the American Canon with The Book of Firsts

    By History of Literature  December 21, 2020
    Best of 2020

    The Best Reviewed Graphic
    Literature of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 18, 2020
    Best of 2020

    The Best Reviewed Literature in Translation of 2020

    By Book Marks  December 18, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Cathy Song on the Slowness and Ritual-Making of Lockdown

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 18, 2020
    Climate Change

    Jared Diamond on the Global Climate Crisis and the Case for Hope

    By Anders Dunker  December 18, 2020
    Literary Disco

    When Should You Start Reading Shel Silverstein to Your Kids?

    By Literary Disco  December 18, 2020
    The Year in Reading

    Rabih Alameddine’s Year in Reading: Poetry Edition

    By Rabih Alameddine  December 17, 2020
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Hope on the Horizon: Charles Baxter and Mike Alberti on Despair and Renewal in Fiction

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 17, 2020
    Identity

    Casey Plett: What Does It
    Mean to Belong?

    By Literary Hub  December 17, 2020
    Theater

    The Austrian Writer Whose Forgotten Plays Inspired His Greatest Work of Fiction

    By Genese Grill  December 17, 2020
    WMFA

    Danielle Evans on Writing the Subterranean Story

    By WMFA   December 17, 2020
    The Maris Review

    Jess Walter on the Challenge of the Contemporary Novelist (Well, One of Them Anyway)

    By The Maris Review  December 17, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Harryette Mullen on Finding Her Poems as She Walks Through Los Angeles

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 17, 2020
    Readings

    On the Fringes of Bogotá: A Reading Unlike Any Other

    By Eduardo Halfon  December 16, 2020
    Politics

    Giving Up Capitalism Doesn’t Mean Giving Up Pleasure

    By Kate Aronoff  December 16, 2020
    Illness

    Interpreter of Maladies: On Virginia Woolf’s Writings About Illness
    and Disability

    By Gabrielle Bellot  December 16, 2020
    Westerns

    Larry Watson Talks Film Adaptations, the Modern Western, and Writerly Superstition

    By Literary Hub  December 16, 2020
    The Year in Reading

    H.M. Naqvi: My Covid Year
    in Reading

    By H.M. Naqvi  December 16, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Kim Stafford on Poetry
    as Service

    By The Quarantine Tapes  December 16, 2020
    Reading Women

    How the 2016 Election Led to Lyssa Kay Adams’s Bromance Book Club

    By Reading Women  December 16, 2020
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