• Craft and Criticism

    Basketball

    How a Poem Ends Up As a Basketball Epic

    By Inua Ellams  September 30, 2020
    Damian Barr's Literary Salon

    Eliza Clark Reads from Her Debut Novel
    Boy Parts

    By Damian Barr's Literary Salon  September 30, 2020
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    The Best Reviewed Memoirs and Biographies, September Edition

    By Book Marks  September 29, 2020
    So Many Damn Books

    Prepare Your Brackets:
    The All-Time Super Rooster Tournament of Books is Here

    By So Many Damn Books  September 29, 2020
    Literary Disco

    On Watership Down, Another Attempt to Stop Humans from Ruining the Planet

    By Literary Disco  September 29, 2020
    Lit Crit

    Brian Dillon on the Sentences of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha

    By Brian Dillon  September 28, 2020
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    The Best Reviewed Books in History and Politics, September Edition

    By Book Marks  September 28, 2020
    Mathematics

    How Storytellers Use Math (Without Scaring People Away)

    By Dan Rockmore  September 28, 2020
    First Draft

    David Szalay: When One Central Character Isn’t Enough

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   September 28, 2020
    The History of Literature

    Margot Livesey on the Greatest Writers in Scottish History

    By History of Literature  September 28, 2020
    The Hub

    Here are the best reviewed books of the week!

    By Book Marks  September 25, 2020
    Ghosts!

    How Literary Ghosts Can Help Us All Be a Little More Human

    By Amy Shearn  September 25, 2020
    Essential Books

    33 Essential Works of Fiction by Iranian Writers

    By Niloufar Talebi  September 25, 2020
    On Poetry

    I Made a Book of Erasure Poems Out of Stephen King’s Misery

    By Sarah J. Sloat  September 25, 2020
    The Literary Life

    Carl Hiaasen on Satire as a Product of Anger

    By The Literary Life  September 25, 2020
    Criticism

    A Brief (But Not Too) History of
    Literary Constipation

    By Jessica Gross  September 24, 2020
    2020 Election

    Dynastic Privilege, A Terrible Novel, and the Race for a Crucial Senate Seat

    By Anjali Enjeti  September 24, 2020
    Craft

    Embracing the Wildness of Diaspora: A Conversation with K-Ming Chang

    By Ysabelle Cheung  September 24, 2020
    NewberyTart

    Erin Entrada Kelly on Writing the Kind of Heroine Who Doesn’t Go Charging into the Forest

    By NewberyTart   September 24, 2020
    The Natural World

    On Planting Seeds, Excavating Language, and the Politics
    of Place

    By Literary Hub  September 23, 2020
    Mighty SONG Writers

    WATCH: Matt Quinn of Mt. Joy on Musical Storytelling and Early Influences

    By Literary Hub  September 23, 2020
    How to Read

    What Is So Special About Balzac’s Thousands of Characters?

    By Peter Brooks  September 23, 2020
    Poetry

    How I Found Small Joys in My Life as a Poem Elf

    By Maggie Lane  September 23, 2020
    WMFA

    Linda Kay Klein on Being a Steward of Others’ Stories

    By WMFA   September 23, 2020
    The Quarantine Tapes

    Lena Herzog on Reading Montaigne Through the Pandemic

    By The Quarantine Tapes  September 23, 2020
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