• Craft and Criticism

    Magical Beings

    How Mermaid Stories Illustrate Complex Truths About
    Being Human

    By Cristina Bacchilega  October 25, 2019
    In Conversation

    On Reconfiguring the Modernist Flaneur and Writing in a
    Post-Truth Age

    By Joanna Kavenna  October 25, 2019
    News and Culture

    The Media Went Crazy When I Made $20,000 in a Week For Writing

    By Glenn O'Brien  October 25, 2019
    New Books Network

    H.G. Parry: When We Read Books, We Bring Their Worlds Into Life

    By New Books Network  October 25, 2019
    Cartoons

    Six Cartoonists on Critical Failure, One Panel at a Time

    By Bob Eckstein  October 24, 2019
    Craft

    On the Many Different Engines That Power a Short Story

    By Lincoln Michel  October 24, 2019
    Craft

    How Pretending to Be Paul McCartney Helped Me Write My Book

    By Karl Whitney  October 24, 2019
    Poetry

    The Yale Younger Poets Prize: A Microcosm of the American Poetry Landscape

    By Carl Phillips  October 23, 2019
    Teaching High School

    Teaching High School Students the Wildness of Poetry

    By Nick Ripatrazone  October 23, 2019
    Interview

    Poet Diana Khoi Nguyen on Family and Writing a Radical Eulogy for Her Brother

    By Peter Mishler  October 23, 2019
    Comics

    On the Countercultural Influence of Peanuts

    By David L. Ulin  October 22, 2019
    Children's Literature

    On the Darkness, Strangeness, and Unbridled Joy of Children’s Books

    By Cara Hoffman  October 22, 2019
    Criticism

    Remembering Kate Braverman’s Los Angeles

    By Liska Jacobs  October 22, 2019
    Diarists

    Alejandro Zambra on One of the Great Diarists of the 20th Century

    By Alejandro Zambra  October 22, 2019
    Essayists

    Marguerite Duras: Internet Essayist?

    By Maddie Crum  October 21, 2019
    Criticism

    Capturing Natural Coincidences, in Fiction and Life

    By Martha Cooley  October 21, 2019
    Correspondence

    Do Printed-Out Emails Count As Letters? (Yes)

    By Dheepa Maturi  October 21, 2019
    Literary History

    On the Sexist Reception of Willa Cather’s World War I Novel

    By Rebecca Onion  October 21, 2019
    But That's Another Story

    Jessica Hagedorn on Writing Experimentally and Trusting the Imagination

    By But That's Another Story  October 21, 2019
    Criticism

    On J.M. Coetzee’s Age of Iron: Perennially, Lamentably, Current

    By John Freeman  October 18, 2019
    Literary History

    Orwell’s Notes on 1984: Mapping the Inspiration of a Modern Classic

    By D.J. Taylor  October 18, 2019
    Trauma

    Panic is Worse Than Pain: How Fiction Failed Me After Trauma

    By Jenn Ashworth  October 18, 2019
    Native American Lit

    How Beth Brant Uplifted the Voices of Native American Queer Women

    By Janice Gould  October 18, 2019
    Being Trans

    Cyrus Grace Dunham on Why We Need to Explode the Gender Binary

    By Sarah Neilson  October 17, 2019
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    The Connie Brothers Era: 45 Years at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop

    By Fiction Non Fiction  October 17, 2019
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