• Craft and Criticism

    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
    Lit Century

    On Midcentury American Literature’s Preoccupation with Scandalous Sex

    By Lit Century   May 18, 2021
    The Virtual Book Channel

    Lilly Dancyger on the Physical and Emotional Tolls of Writing Memoir

    By The Virtual Book Channel  May 18, 2021
    Trans Rights

    The Necessity (and Inadequacy) of Trans Self-Acceptance Narratives

    By Isle McElroy  May 18, 2021
    new books tuesday

    Rejoice, for here are 20 new books coming out today.

    By Katie Yee  May 18, 2021
    So Many Damn Books

    On the Alarming Conflation of Patricia Highsmith and Tom Ripley… Encouraged by Highsmith Herself

    By So Many Damn Books  May 18, 2021
    The Hub

    Writers, take heart: K-Pop superstars are just like you!

    By Jonny Diamond  May 17, 2021
    Writers on Writers

    Symbiosis and Psychedelics: An Exploratory Conversation Between Edward St. Aubyn and Merlin Sheldrake

    By Merlin Sheldrake and Edward St. Aubyn  May 17, 2021
    The History of Literature

    What Can We Still Take from Philip Larkin?

    By History of Literature  May 17, 2021
    Criticism

    The Twisted Dream of Home Ownership in Tana French’s Novels

    By Nora Caplan-Bricker  May 17, 2021
    Storytelling

    Is Fabulism the New Sincerity?

    By Brenda Peynado  May 17, 2021
    First Draft

    Layla AlAmmar: Who Gets to Dictate How a Story Is Told?

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   May 17, 2021
    Love and Romance

    How We Wrote a Joint Memoir Without Sabotaging Our Relationship

    By Meg Bashwiner and Joseph Fink  May 17, 2021
    Science fiction

    On the Best Subversive, Genre-Busting Writer You’ve Never Heard Of

    By Tobias Carroll  May 14, 2021
    Jane Austen

    Pride and Property:
    On the Homes of Jane Austen

    By Phyllis Richardson  May 14, 2021
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