• Craft and Criticism

    Archives

    James Baldwin: ‘I Never Intended to Become an Essayist’

    By Literary Hub  March 20, 2019
    Essay

    Writing Poetry to Find a Father Worth Grieving

    By Edgar Kunz  March 20, 2019
    New in Nonfiction

    Learning From Carolyn Forché’s Fearlessness

    By Beth Kephart  March 20, 2019
    Excerpts

    Andrea Dworkin’s Argument Against Punctuation

    By Andrea Dworkin  March 20, 2019
    Millennials?

    Halle Butler on Millennial Burnout and the Frustrations of Living

    By So Many Damn Books  March 20, 2019
    Poets

    On the Poetic Legacy of W.S. Merwin

    By John Freeman  March 19, 2019
    Feature

    “Go With What’s Alive” and Other Writing Advice from Philip Roth

    By Emily Temple  March 19, 2019
    Criticism

    The Enduring Appeal of Literary Tricksters

    By Seth Fried  March 19, 2019
    Excerpts

    The Island That Inspired Conrad and Lawrence’s Queerest Characters

    By Jamie James  March 19, 2019
    Criticism

    Literary Allusion Runs Deep Through the History of Hip-Hop

    By Roy Christopher  March 18, 2019
    Essay

    Meet the Man Brought to Trial for Murdering the English Language

    By Emily Temple  March 18, 2019
    Excerpts

    The British Schoolboy Memoir: Masking Misery with Nostalgia

    By James Brooke-Smith  March 18, 2019
    Conversations

    The People Writer-Parents Need (Besides Their Kids)

    By Brian Gresko  March 18, 2019
    Excerpts

    James Joyce’s Dublin, a Microcosm of the World

    By Sarah Baxter  March 15, 2019
    Essay

    Why Salt Lake City is a Great Place for a Writer to Live

    By Paisley Rekdal  March 15, 2019
    Excerpts

    It Was All Greek to Her: With the Sappho-Obsessed in 1900s Paris

    By Artemis Leontis  March 15, 2019
    Erasure

    Exploring the Truth Behind Bad Celebrity Apologies

    By New Books Network  March 15, 2019
    Conversations

    What Trauma Leaves Behind

    By Carley Moore  March 15, 2019
    Essay

    Why Do We Hate the Suburbs?

    By Suzannah Lessard  March 14, 2019
    Criticism

    Honoré de Balzac’s Legendary Love Affair With His Anonymous Critic

    By Emily Temple  March 14, 2019
    Autofiction

    Steve Anwyll on the Uses of the Autobiographical Novel

    By Otherppl with Brad Listi  March 14, 2019
    Conversations

    John Lanchester and Joe O’Neill Talk Climate Change and Border Walls

    By Literary Hub  March 14, 2019
    Essay

    Why My Students Don’t Call Themselves ‘Southern’ Writers

    By Katy Simpson Smith  March 13, 2019
    How to...

    The Impossibility of Finding a Place to Write in New York

    By Andrew Ridker  March 13, 2019
    Excerpts

    Thankfulness, Praise, and Ross Gay

    By Adam Sol  March 13, 2019
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