• Craft and Criticism

    The Literary Salon

    Chris Adrian on Atheist Club at Divinity School

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  October 7, 2020
    The Virtual Book Channel

    WATCH: Poet Eric Gansworth in Conversation with Painter Andrea Carlson and Writer Heid Erdrich

    By Twenty Summers  October 6, 2020
    Children's Literature

    Ramona Quimby and the Art of Writing From a Kid’s Mind

    By Annie Barrows  October 6, 2020
    Criticism

    How Halldór Laxness Brings the Heroic to the Everyday

    By John Freeman  October 6, 2020
    Young Adult

    Where Are the Unlikeable Female Characters in Young Adult Fiction?

    By Hayley Krischer  October 6, 2020
    Theater

    Ishmael Reed: Mr. Miranda, Hamilton Left Out a Few Things

    By Ishmael Reed  October 6, 2020
    Close Reading

    Why is The Known World
    So Good?

    By Emily Temple  October 5, 2020
    Neuroscience

    On Learning of My Autism While Trying to Finish a Novel

    By Madeleine Ryan  October 5, 2020
    Lit Crit

    The Shape of His Stories: In Praise of Edward P. Jones

    By Elizabeth Poliner  October 5, 2020
    The Middle East

    When the US Became a Rogue State in the Middle East

    By David Barsamian  October 5, 2020
    First Draft

    Rebecca Watson on Authors Being as Gods to Their Characters

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 5, 2020
    Otherppl

    Lynn Steger Strong on the F*ck-It Mindset Behind Her Second Novel

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  October 5, 2020
    The History of Literature

    On the Haunting Remorse of Edgar Allan Poe’s
    “The Black Cat”

    By History of Literature  October 5, 2020
    Well-Versed

    Marilynne Robinson on Writing a Character Without a Carapace

    By Well-Versed   October 2, 2020
    Criticism

    A Conversion of Suffering: At the Intersection of Poetry and Psychoanalysis in Paul Celan

    By Jamieson Webster  October 2, 2020
    On Memoir

    The Case for Writing a Memoir in Essays

    By Beth Kephart  October 2, 2020
    Material History

    What Exactly Do We Mean By a Book?

    By James Raven  October 1, 2020
    Great Authors

    On Reengaging with Franz Kafka’s Astonishing Worlds

    By Gregory Ariail  October 1, 2020
    The Maris Review

    Ayad Akhtar on a New Kind
    of Autofiction

    By The Maris Review  October 1, 2020
    NewberyTart

    Pediatrician and Author Sayantani DasGupta on Stories as Good Medicine

    By NewberyTart   October 1, 2020
    Otherppl

    Steven Dunn on Coming Back to Reading Through Rap and Nikki Giovanni

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  October 1, 2020
    History of Reading

    At Their Own Pace: Why Reading Is Not an Inherent Moral Good

    By Katherine Gaudet  September 30, 2020
    Animals

    All Hail the Beaver, Mighty Linchpin of the Natural World

    By Derek Gow and Ben Goldfarb  September 30, 2020
    Thresholds

    Natalie Diaz on Writing Poetry as a Body

    By Thresholds   September 30, 2020
    On Poetry

    Brittle Mac Keyboards, the True Enemy of Letters

    By Jeremy Sigler  September 30, 2020
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