• Craft and Criticism

    Class

    Unearthing the Stories of Australia’s Working Class

    By Enza Gandolfo  December 18, 2019
    Poets

    Poet Diane Glancy on Transgression and Writing the Past

    By Peter Mishler  December 18, 2019
    Shakespeare

    High Comedy and Misdemeanors:
    The Shakespearean Drama at the Heart of Impeachment

    By Liesl Schillinger  December 17, 2019
    Craft and Advice

    How a Mathematical Model Rescued My Book About Math

    By Ben Orlin  December 17, 2019
    #MeToo

    A Season of Books Takes Stock
    of #MeToo

    By Kaylen Ralph  December 17, 2019
    Literary Criticism

    For Elena Ferrante, What Distinguishes Conventional Male and Female Friendships?

    By Tiziana de Rogatis  December 17, 2019
    Teaching High School

    Teaching High Schoolers the Ingenuity and Prowess of Poetry

    By Nick Ripatrazone  December 17, 2019
    Tributes

    Finding Nuance and Much-Needed Relief in the Writing of Bharati Mukherjee

    By Mira Jacob  December 17, 2019
    The Writing Life

    Confessions of an Undercover Novelist

    By Abigail Hing Wen  December 16, 2019
    Criticism

    For John Berger, the Time We Feel Most Deeply Can’t Be Kept on a Clock

    By Gabrielle Bellot  December 16, 2019
    But That's Another Story

    Michael Frank on the Hard Work of Waiting and Making it to the Other Side

    By But That's Another Story  December 16, 2019
    Capitalism

    The Rise of the Downfall of
    the Dirtbag Heiress

    By Chelsea Davis  December 13, 2019
    News and Culture

    Melissa Albert on Her Icy Teen Heroine and the Resuscitation
    of Fairy Tales

    By New Books Network  December 13, 2019
    Young Adult

    Rereading the Master of
    ‘Dying Teen’ Lit

    By Katy Hershberger  December 12, 2019
    Mothers and Daughters

    Virginia Woolf’s Mother Haunts
    Much of Her Writing

    By Gillian Gill  December 12, 2019
    The Writing Life

    Who Has the Right to Be a Writer?

    By Stewart Sinclair  December 12, 2019
    Fiction/Non/Fiction

    Isolating the Language of Abuse in Politics, Gender Relations, and Sexual Abuse

    By Fiction Non Fiction  December 12, 2019
    Criticism

    Revelation and Return: Sixty Years of Grace Paley’s The Little Disturbances of Man

    By Justin Taylor  December 11, 2019
    Travel

    A Brief Contemporary History of Nairobi’s Literary House Parties

    By Carey Baraka  December 11, 2019
    Cultural Studies

    How Cleanliness and Beauty Became Intertwined
    in the 18th Century

    By Peter Ward  December 11, 2019
    Biography

    The Makings of Grace Paley: Writer, Activist, Feminist

    By Judith Arcana  December 11, 2019
    On Poetry

    The Light As She Saw It: On Sitting in Emily Dickinson’s Bedroom

    By Julie Dobrow  December 11, 2019
    On Whiteness

    Recognizing the Enduring Whiteness of Jane Austen

    By Marcos Gonsalez  December 11, 2019
    Nature Writing

    How to Write with Optimism About Nature
    (in a Time of Disaster)

    By Tobias Carroll  December 11, 2019
    Philosophy

    Siri Hustvedt on Panpsychism’s Shifting Foundations

    By Siri Hustvedt  December 10, 2019
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