• Craft and Criticism

    Literary Criticism

    A Tribute to Beat Writer Bobbie Louise Hawkins

    By Laura Henriksen  April 22, 2019
    Reading Lists

    Books to Help You Think
    Like a Visual Artist

    By Myla Goldberg  April 19, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    Simon Critchley on Tragedy: Colluding in Our Calamity

    By Simon Critchley  April 18, 2019
    How to Write

    Jane Alison on Raymond Carver
    and Tobias Wolff

    By Jane Alison  April 18, 2019
    Craft and Advice

    Writing Fiction About Fact: Using Historical Figures As Characters

    By Steven Rowley  April 18, 2019
    Craft and Advice

    Revising My Novel Unearthed
    a #MeToo Story

    By Rachel Cline  April 18, 2019
    In Conversation

    On Historical Blurring and the Question of ‘What If’

    By Literary Hub  April 18, 2019
    Profile

    Susan Choi is Done With Fairy Tales

    By Hamilton Cain  April 17, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    An Argument for Slowing the
    F*ck Down with War and Peace

    By Natalie Adler  April 17, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    Harold Bloom on Wallace Stevens, Young Love, and Old Age

    By Harold Bloom  April 17, 2019
    On Translation

    Embedded with the Beating Heart of Madagascar’s Literary Life

    By Allison M. Charette  April 17, 2019
    Craft and Advice

    Cecelia Ahern on How She Writes
    a Novel a Year

    By Cecelia Ahern  April 16, 2019
    Politics

    What Does Ulysses Tell Us About
    Pete Buttigieg?

    By Tyler Malone  April 15, 2019
    Religion

    Why Are So Many Fictional Teens
    Entering Cults?

    By Katherine Cusumano  April 15, 2019
    MFA Life

    Prepping for MFA Programs as
    a Person of Color

    By Hebah Uddin  April 15, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    Why More People Should Read This Danish Masterpiece

    By Garth Risk Hallberg  April 15, 2019
    The CIA

    The CIA Scheme That Brought
    Doctor Zhivago to The World

    By Rebecca Renner  April 12, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    How Ramona Quimby Helps Kids Make Sense of This Unstable World

    By Rachel Richardson  April 12, 2019
    In Conversation

    Reclaiming Anger and Denial:
    A Red Ink Roundtable

    By Literary Hub  April 12, 2019
    Advice

    How What I’ve Learned as an Actor Can Apply to Storytelling

    By Brett Paesel  April 12, 2019
    Politics

    Lizzie Post Got Stoned Every Day to Write About Pot Etiquette

    By Eric Vilas-Boas  April 11, 2019
    Advice

    When a First-Person Narrator Sneaks Into Your Story

    By Jennifer duBois  April 11, 2019
    Millennials?

    Let’s All Stop Pigeonholing Sally Rooney as a “Millennial Writer”

    By Emily Temple  April 10, 2019
    Criticism

    What Do We Really Mean By
    ‘Women’s Fiction’?

    By Rachel Howard  April 10, 2019
    Civil Rights

    Falling in Love with Malcolm X—and His Mastery of Metaphor

    By Mateo Askaripour  April 10, 2019
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