• Craft and Criticism

    Advice

    Baba Yaga Will Answer Your Questions About Life, Love, and Belonging

    By Taisia Kitaiskaia  October 28, 2020
    WMFA

    R. O. Kwon on Keeping Faith in the Writing Process

    By WMFA   October 28, 2020
    The Hub

    16 new books to buy from your local indie bookstore this week.

    By Katie Yee  October 27, 2020
    Craft

    Hilary Mantel on How Writers Learn to Trust Themselves

    By Hilary Mantel  October 27, 2020
    Reading Lists

    The 50 Greatest Apocalypse Novels

    By Emily Temple  October 27, 2020
    Interview with a Poet

    Poet Pamela Sneed On Artistic Process, Black Queer Writers, and Her Latest Work

    By Peter Mishler  October 27, 2020
    Best Reviewed Books of the Month

    The Best Reviewed Books in History and Politics, October Edition

    By Book Marks  October 27, 2020
    End Times

    Paul Kingsnorth’s Transhuman Apocalypse Unfolds in an Old English Fenland

    By Ellie Robins  October 27, 2020
    So Many Damn Books

    Revisiting the Perennially Creepy House of Leaves

    By So Many Damn Books  October 27, 2020
    Children's Literature

    A Book to Conjure Nature, When We
    Need It Most

    By Jonny Diamond  October 26, 2020
    Philosophy

    Michiko Kakutani on
    Why We Love Books

    By Michiko Kakutani  October 26, 2020
    Lit Crit

    On Patrick Modiano and Perfecting the Art of Repetition

    By Mark Polizzoti  October 26, 2020
    First Draft

    Bill Clegg on the Unknowability of… Well, Everything

    By First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing   October 26, 2020
    Memoir

    Alisson Wood on the Myth of Catharsis and Reclaiming One’s Power

    By Luna Adler  October 26, 2020
    The History of Literature

    We Have Edgar Allan Poe to Thank for the Detective Story

    By History of Literature  October 26, 2020
    Nature Writing

    Sylvia Plath… Nature Writer?

    By Marlena Williams  October 23, 2020
    In Translation

    Hiroko Oyamada Wrote Her First Book, The Factory, in the Factory Where She Worked

    By David Boyd  October 23, 2020
    Music

    On the Event That Brought Me Back to Writing After 30 Years

    By Robert Duncan  October 23, 2020
    Bookable

    Mira Jacob, Kiese Laymon, and Saeed Jones on the Art of Memoir

    By Bookable   October 23, 2020
    Indian Literature

    The Enduring Strength and Richness of Kashmir’s
    Literary Life

    By Sharanya Deepak  October 23, 2020
    The Literary Life

    Jill McCorkle on the Voice She Channels When It’s Time to Write a Rant

    By The Literary Life  October 23, 2020
    On Translation

    WATCH: Writers and Translators on What It Means to Have a ‘Mother Tongue’

    By Literary Hub  October 23, 2020
    NewberyTart

    Adam Gidwitz’s Dream Job: Getting Heckled by Second Graders

    By NewberyTart   October 23, 2020
    New Books Network

    Eshkol Nevo on Writing a Novel in Questions

    By New Books Network  October 23, 2020
    Workshop

    The Case Against Critical Feedback

    By Lauren D. Woods  October 22, 2020
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