• Craft and Criticism

    Historical Fiction

    How Writing a Novel Is Like Decrypting a Cipher

    By Rafe Posey  May 21, 2021
    The Craft of Writing

    John McPhee on Wrestling with a First Draft

    By John McPhee  May 21, 2021
    Interview with a Journal

    Interview with a Journal: Apogee

    By Vanessa Willoughby  May 21, 2021
    New Books Network

    What if Humanity Isn’t the Final Stage of Evolution?

    By New Books Network  May 21, 2021
    Storytelling

    A Witness to the Human Experience: Why Medicine Needs Storytellers

    By David Weill, MD  May 20, 2021
    Feminist History

    Mary Wollstonecraft is a Double Taurus, Or: How an Astrologer Helped Unstick My Novel

    By Samantha Silva  May 20, 2021
    Literary Adaptations

    How Does a Book Get Adapted for TV or Film?

    By Chaya Bhuvaneswar  May 20, 2021
    Classics

    How Ancient Tales Became a Rallying Cry for Modern Women

    By Phoebe Wynne  May 20, 2021
    Keen On

    Barrett Swanson on the Search for Reality in a “Post-Truth” America

    By Keen On  May 20, 2021
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Carolin Benack and Sanjena Sathian on the Fiction of the Economy and the Dangerous Appeal of Excess

    By Fiction Non Fiction  May 20, 2021
    The Maris Review

    Elizabeth McCracken on Placing Her Characters in New Settings

    By The Maris Review  May 20, 2021
    Book Dreams

    Laurie Frankel on the Way That Girls Superhero

    By Book Dreams  May 20, 2021
    Thresholds

    C Pam Zhang on the Psychic Idea of Home

    By Thresholds   May 19, 2021
    Misfits

    Outsiders, Eccentrics, and Misfits: A Reading List

    By Claire Fuller  May 19, 2021
    Pandemics

    Jim Shepard: When Your Novel Veers a Little Too Close to Grim Reality

    By Jim Shepard  May 19, 2021
    Politics

    An Argument for Literature as Care Work

    By Alexandra Kingston-Reese  May 19, 2021
    The Writing Life

    “I Wanted to Be on Fire.” On the Connection Between Art and Self-Destruction

    By Bridget Collins  May 19, 2021
    Reading Women

    T Kira Madden on Centering Pacific Island Voices

    By Reading Women  May 19, 2021
    Otherppl with Brad Listi

    Courtney Zoffness on the One Characteristic That Writers Share

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  May 19, 2021
    The Literary Salon

    Krystal Sutherland Reads from Her Novel House of Hollow

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  May 19, 2021
    5 Books You May Have Missed

    5 Books in Translation You May Have Missed in April

    By Bethanne Patrick  May 19, 2021
    NewberyTart

    Why Julia Franks Created a (Much-Needed) Children’s Literacy App

    By NewberyTart   May 19, 2021
    The Hub

    Would you let a random group of strangers on the Internet plot your next novel?

    By Jonny Diamond  May 18, 2021
    In Memoriam

    “All He Wanted From Us Was Truth.” Remembering Stephen Dixon

    By Courtney Zoffness  May 18, 2021
    The Writing Life

    The Agony and the Ecstasy of Publishing Your Work in a Literary Magazine

    By Erica Jenks Henry  May 18, 2021
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